Summary

In this chapter, we covered the storage options available to us by looking at which ones were most appropriate for common requirements. We also learned about Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud SQL.

With Google Cloud Storage, we looked at use cases, storage classes, and some main features of the service. We also covered some considerations to bear in mind when transferring data. It's clear that Cloud Storage offers a lot of flexibility, but when we need to store more structured data, we need to look at alternatives.

With Cloud Datastore, we learned that this service is a NoSQL database and is ideal for your situation, should your application rely on highly available and structured data. Also, Cloud Datastore can scale from zero up to terabytes of data with ease and is ideal for ACID transactions. We also learned that it offers eventual or strong consistency; however, if we have different requirements and a need for a relational database that has full...