Google Cloud Storage Options

Intro to Storage for GCP
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Google Cloud Storage

GCS is a scalable, fully-managed, highly reliable, and cost-efficient object / blob store. It´s good for:

  • Images, pictures, and videos
  • Objects and blobs
  • Unstructured data

Google Cloud Datastore

Datastore is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL document database for your web and mobile applications. It is good for:

  • Semi-structured application data
  • Hierarchical data
  • Durable key-value data
  • Common workloads:
  • User profiles
  • Product catalogs
  • Game state

Google Cloud BigTable

BigTable is a scalable, fully-managed NoSQL wide-column database that is suitable for both real-time access and analytics workloads. It´s ood for:

  • Low-latency read/write access
  • High-throughput analytics
  • Native time series support
  • Common workloads: IoT, finance, adtech Personalization, recommendations Monitoring Geospatial datasets, Graphs

BigQuery is for multi petabyte storage , HA(High availability) which means 24 hours, SQL interface.

BigQuery is Google’s serverless, highly scalable, low cost enterprise data warehouse designed to make all your data analysts productive. Because there is no infrastructure to manage, you can focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights using familiar SQL and you don’t need a database administrator.

Other services relevant to Storage

Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and batch (historical) modes with equal reliability and expressiveness – no more complex workarounds or compromises needed.




Last modified August 7, 2020: AddingPulumi (ef0cf4e)