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 support over a petabyte of data.
We have now come to the end of a large chapter with a lot of information to take in. We have looked at the...