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Google Cloud Platform Cookbook

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Cookbook Implement, deploy, maintain, and migrate applications on Google Cloud Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291996
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Legorie Rajan PS Legorie Rajan PS
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Preface 1. Compute 2. Storage and Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking 4. Security 5. Machine Learning and Big Data 6. Management Tools 7. Best Practices 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Storage metadata in Google Cloud Datastore

Google Datastore is a highly scalable, NoSQL document database similar to Amazon's DynamoDB and MongoDB. Individual data objects in the Datastore are called entities. An entity has one or more properties and a category of objects is called a kind. Each object is uniquely identified by a key. In this recipe, we would simulate a storage drive environment. Employees of a company are given the ability to upload files to Google Storage. The metadata is stored in Cloud Datastore to avoid overhead to the Storage API and for efficiency. The file uploaded to the Storage follows this file format:

<5-digit hash>/<[year][month][day][hour][minute][second]>/<Employee ID>/<file name>

After the data is uploaded to Storage, the metadata collected should enable us to query:

  • List all objects uploaded by an employee
  • List...
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Google Cloud Platform Cookbook
Published in: Apr 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788291996
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