Summary
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 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 offers low latency, is ideal for IoT as it can handle high-speed transactions in real time, 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 key database services offered by GCP. We advise that you look over the exam tips in this chapter and make sure that...
