June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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Summary
This chapter explores the two main NoSQL database services from Google Cloud Platform:
- Bigtable
- Datastore
Bigtable is optimized for fast scans: range queries or select all queries along a single column, and with very large datasets, on the order of petabytes in size. Datastore, on the other hand, is meant for far smaller data, on the order of terabytes, where the use case involves fast lookups independent of dataset size.