Summary
In this chapter, we covered Cloud Spanner and Bigtable.
In terms of Cloud Spanner, we now understand that this is a scalable and globally distributed database. It is strongly consistent and was built to combine the benefits of relational databases with the scalability of a non-relational database. Cloud Spanner can scale across regions for workloads that might have high availability requirements.
We covered Bigtable at a high level in order to make sure you are aware of what is expected in the exam. It is a fully managed NoSQL database service that can scale massively and offer low latency, is ideal for IoT as it can handle high-speed transactions in real time, and it also integrates well with machine learning and analytics and can ...
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