Databases

Question 1

Cloud Bigtable

Answer 1

Cloud Bigtable is:
A fast, fully-managed, highly-scalable NoSQL database service. It is designed for the collection and retention of data from 1TB to hundreds of PB

Question 2

Datastore

Answer 2

Datastore is:
A fully-managed, schemaless, non-relational datastore. It provides a rich set of query capabilities, supports atomic transactions, and automatically scales up and down in response to load

It can scale to support an application with 1,000 users or 10 million users with no code changes

Question 3

Firestore

Answer 3

Firestore is:
A NoSQL document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps

Its client libraries provide live synchronization and offline support, while its security features and integrations with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform accelerate building serverless apps

Question 4

Memorystore

Answer 4

Memorystore:
Includes Memorystore for Redis and Memorystore for Memcached, provides a fully-managed in-memory data store service that allows customers to deploy distributed caches that provide sub-millisecond data access

Question 5

Cloud Spanner

Answer 5

Cloud Spanner is:
A fully-managed, mission-critical relational database service

It is designed to provide a scalable online transaction processing (OLTP) database with high availability and strong consistency at global scale

Question 6

Cloud SQL

Answer 6

Cloud SQL is:
A web service that allows you to create, configure, and use relational databases that live in Google’s cloud

Fully-managed service that maintains, manages, and administers your databases, allowing you to focus on your applications and services