Google Cloud’s Database and Big Data Services
Data plays a very important role in modern industry. Just as petroleum oil has been a primary energy resource for almost all industries, data has become a primary digital asset in modern companies. As more and more of our lives are lived online, more and more businesses are conducted online, and our interactions with technology generate more and more data, companies have realized the power of data in making informed business decisions, improving products and services, and ultimately adding value to businesses.
As a data company, Google provides varied data services on its cloud platform, from data ingestion, data storing, data processing, to data visualization. In this chapter, we will focus on the following topics:
- Google Cloud’s database services, including Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Memorystore
- Google Cloud’s big data services, including Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud...