A major requirement for most software solutions is the ability to persist and act on data. As we saw in previous chapters, there are several compute options on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), each offering a diverse set of features filling specific needs. Likewise, there are several options in the GCP for how these systems persist data. Which option to use will depend on a number of factors, primarily driven by the nature of the data being captured and the way that data will be used.
A strong trend in the database arena over the past decade has been the adoption of nonrelational data persistence technologies, generally referred to as NoSQL solutions. Google Cloud offers two primary NoSQL solutions: Datastore and Bigtable.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding the various NoSQL offerings on GCP and when to use them
- Designing...