Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

Data Storage Services

In data storage services, we have many services such as Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Datastore, Bigtable, and BigQuery. Questions are often asked like this: with a given scenario, what should be the right service to choose? For example, we have a scenario where the data source is files and they are documents of a team loading the data to GCP. We have to choose the current Data Storage Service. In this scenario, the best option would be Cloud Storage, as it can store data in object format. Similarly, if you want a SQL-like engine but the requirement is strong consistency and high availability, you are left with two options: Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner will be a better option over Cloud SQL due ...