Firestore and Bigtable

Question 1

Firestore scales well in this direction

Answer 1

down

Question 2

Cloud Bigtable scales well in this direction

Answer 2

up

Question 3

Firestore is the next generation of

Answer 3

Datastore

Question 4

Firestore example apps

Answer 4

Mobile, web, IoT apps at global scale. Semi structured app data, durable key-value data

Question 5

Cloud Bigtable example apps

Answer 5

Ad Tech, Fintech, IoT, ML. Heavy read + write or events

Question 6

Firestore transaction type and row number

Answer 6

ACID - if any operation fails, whole transaction fails. Multiple rows

Question 7

Firestore DB type

Answer 7

NoSQL document

Question 8

Cloud Bigtable DB type

Answer 8

NoSQL wide column. Sparsely populated

Question 9

Cloud Bigtable Capacity

Answer 9

Petabytes+

Question 10

Cloud Bigtable row number

Answer 10

Single-row

Question 11

Firestore Capacity

Answer 11

Terabytes+

Question 12

Firestore/Cloud Bigtable Decision Chart

Answer 12

If any of these, use Cloud Bigtable:
Storing > 1 TB structured data
Very high volumes of writes
r/w latency < 10 milliseconds and strong consistency
HBase API compatible
Otherwise Firestore