Additional storage and database options
The Google Cloud ecosystem is huge, and it's not possible to cover every service in a single chapter. The five services that we've already covered make the biggest part of Google Cloud's storage and database services and are, in many ways, the pillars. However, there are some additional services that you'll find useful as your journey in cloud application development continues. Here are four such services.
BigQuery
Cloud BigQuery is a SQL relational database that is also used as a big data analytics platform. It's under the Big Data section of Cloud Console instead of the Storage section because its main purpose is to query extremely large datasets extremely quickly—terabytes of data within minutes.
The reason we didn't include BigQuery in our main list of database options was that most small businesses and developers who are just starting out won't be working with datasets that are measured...