Storage Options Flashcards
Used for holding unstructured data like images, videos and website assets
Cloud storage
Objects are stored together in ____
Buckets
Three attributes that should be defined when creating storage buckets
- Globally unique name
- Location (region or multi-region)
- Storage class
Feature lets you define fine-grained access to buckets and objects
ACLs
Ideal cloud storage class for applications with globally distributed users
Multi-regional
Storage class ideal for disaster recovery scenarios
Cold storage
Storage class ideal for a batch job that runs analysis once a month
Nearline
Purpose of Storage Transfer Service
Allows you schedule managed batch data transfers to cloud storage
Fully managed NoSQL Big Data service
Cloud Big Table
Common use cases for Cloud BigTable
Financial Applications
Marketing and Analytics
IoT applications
Service that offers SQL database with global redundancy
Cloud Spanner
Database offerings that offer transactional consistency usually required in banking applications
Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner
Advantages of using Cloud SQL over SQL databases running in a VM
Automatic failover with read replicas
On-demand scaling
Backups
Accessible to other GCP services
Horizontally scalable database for application backends
Cloud Datastore
Database offering that supports flat ‘single key’ data storage, heavy I/O operations, events and analytical data. Useful in AdTech and IoT applications
Cloud Bigtable
NoSQL database service that supports storage of structured objects, transactions and SQL-like querying
Cloud Datastore
Database offering that offers full SQL support useful for an OLTP
Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner
Database offering that supports interactive querying in an OLAP system
BigQuery
Cloud storage class that is ideal for content storage and delivery to global audiences
Multi-regional
Cloud storage class that is ideal for storage in-region data for compute operations such as analytics processing and transcoding
Regional
Ideal cloud storage class for data archiving and disaster recovery
Coldline
