Data

Question 1

Cloud Storage High Level

Answer 1

Object. Binary or object data. Ex: images, media servering, backups

Question 2

Filestore High Level

Answer 2

File. Network Attached Storage (NAS). Ex: Latency sensitive workloads

Question 3

Cloud SQL High Level

Answer 3

Relational. Web frameworks. Ex: CMS, eCommerce

Question 4

Cloud Spanner High Level

Answer 4

Relational. RDBMS+scale, HA, HTAP. Ex: User metadata, Ad/Fin/MarTech

Question 5

Firestore High Level

Answer 5

Non Relational. Hierarchical, mobile, web. Ex: user profiles, game state

Question 6

Cloud Bigtable High Level

Answer 6

Non Relational. Heavy read +write, events. AdTech, financial, IoT

Question 7

BigQuery High Level

Answer 7

Warehouse. Enterprise data warehouse. Analytics, dashboards

Question 8

Storage Decision Chart

Answer 8

Structured Yes? Workload Analytics Yes? Need updates or low latency Yes? = Cloud Bigtable
Structured Yes? Workload Analytics Yes? Do not need updates or low latency? = BigQuery
Structured Yes? Workload Analytics No. Relational Yes? Horizontal Yes? = Cloud Spanner
Structured Yes? Workload Analytics No. Relational Yes? Horizontal No? = Cloud SQL
Structured Yes? Workload Analytics No. Relational No? = Firestore
Structured No? Shared file system Yes? = Filestore
Structured No? Shared file system No? = Cloud Storage