# Cloud Firestore Adds Single-Field Index Controls and New Data Locations

DevFeed: [Cloud Firestore Adds Single-Field Index Controls and New Data Locations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/more-cloud-firestore-improvements-16283.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2018/08/more-cloud-firestore-improvements>)

Author: Todd Kerpelman

Published: 2018-08-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firestore](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firestore.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [cloud-next](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-next.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [firestore](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firestore.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

The Firebase team describes Cloud Firestore improvements, including controls to disable automatic indexing for individual fields and new options for locating Firestore data. Disabling indexing can reduce unnecessary storage and time costs, avoid indexed-field and write-rate limits in some cases, and prevents queries on the disabled field.

## Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.