Storage & Database services

Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage - Official documentation

Data migration services to Cloud Storage

File Storage

Filestore - Official documentation

Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL - Official documentation

Fully managed DB service - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Patched & updated automatically

Cloud SQL network connectivity

Cloud SQL decision tree

Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner - Official documentation

Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service
Global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover
High availability
- Multi-regional 99.999%
- Regional 99.99%
Used for financial & inventory applications

Cloud Spanner decision tree

Cloud Firestore

Cloud Firestore - Official documentation

Firestore is a NoSQL document database
ACID transactions
Multi-region replication
Use cases include mobile, web & IOT applications
Two modes
- Datastore mode (new server projects)
- Native mode (mobile & web apps)

Cloud Firestore decision tree

Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Bigtable - Official documentation

NoSQL big data database service

Bigtable storage model

Official documentation

Bigtable architecture

Official documentation

Decision tree

Cloud Memorystore

Cloud Memorystore - Official documentation

Managed in-memory data store service.
Caching solution
- Redis. Memorystore for Redis - Official documentation
- Memcached. Memorystore for Memcached - Official documentation