title: Is Google Cloud Datastore actually enforcing its 1MB entity size limit?
body: <p>I am hesitating between MongoDB and Google Cloud Datastore for one of my microservices. The microservice is rather easy to setup and no other limitations in either database is problematic.</p>
  
  <p>All of the documents stored will contain a trimmed-down version of a web page, many of which are over 1MB themselves. That's without the properties and results we'll compute and add to the document. <strong>Therefore, Datasore's limitation of 1MB per entity (document) is problematic (<a href="https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/limits" rel="nofollow noreferrer">see here</a>.)</strong></p>
  
  <p>On the flipside, I have several microservices and I tend to like starting as easy as possible. Datastore is ideal in terms of hosted database: automatically scales and the API is great. So besides this entity size limit, it is my first choice.</p>
  
  <p><em>For Google Datastore users, are they actually enforcing the entity size limit, and if so, are you aware of any plan to bring this limit up?</em></p>