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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Cloud Spanner


Now we are on the sixth topic: Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, and relational database service that offers transactional consistency at a global scale, schemas, SQL, and automatic synchronous replication for high availability.

Cloud Spanner offers:

  • Strong consistency
  • SQL support
  • Managed instances with high availability through transparent, synchronous, and built-in data replication
  • Regional and multi-regional instance configurations

When to use

Cloud Spanner is ideal for relational, structured, and semi-structured data that requires high availability, strong consistency, and transactional reads and writes. In most cases, Cloud SQL would suffice your requirement, but Cloud Spanner can be a real savior when we are talking about consistency and high availability.

Special features

Cloud Spanner comes with great features. Transaction consistency and enterprise grade security top the list of those features. It is really a very highly available service, so...