GCP Storage Services

Question 1

Best storage option for

• terabytes of capacity
• max unit size of 1 MB per entity.
• Does not support SQL-like queries or multi-row transactions

Answer 1

Datastore

Question 2

Best storage option for

• petabytes of capacity
• max entity size 10MB
• 100 MB per row
• analytical data/heavy read write

Does not support SQL queries
Does not support multi-row tx

Answer 2

Big Table

Question 3

Best option for:

• immutable blobs
• images movies
• 5TB per object
• media objects

Answer 3

Cloud Storage

Question 4

Best storage option for:

• full SQL suppport
• online tx processing
• TB of capacity
• web frameworks
• customer orders
• user credentials

is not horizontally scalable

Answer 4

Cloud SQL

Question 5

Best storage option for:

• full SQL support
• online tx processing
• PB of capacity
• horizontally scalable
• larger than 2 TB
• financial trading
• ecommerce

Answer 5

Cloud Spanner