Planning Storage in the Cloud

This Chapter includes guidelines for choosing storage solutions for different kinds of requirements. When planning cloud storage, consider the types of storage systems and types of data models. The storage systems provide the hardware and basic organizational structure used for storing data. The data models organize data into logical structures that determine how data is stored and queried within a database. The main storage systems available in GCP are Memorystore, a managed cache service, and persistent disks, which are network‐accessible disks for VMs in Compute Engine and Kubernetes Engine. Cloud Storage is GCP's object storage system. The primary data models are object, relational, and NoSQL. NoSQL databases in GCP are further subdivided into document and wide‐column databases. Cloud Storage uses an object data model. Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner use relational databases for transaction processing applications. BigQuery uses a relational model for data warehouse and analytic applications. Datastore and Firebase are document databases. Bigtable is a wide‐column table.