GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM
CLOUD DATASTORE
WHAT IS CLOUD DATASTORE?
Description
• A scalable, fully-managed NoSQL document database for your web and
mobile applications.
Good for
• Semi-structured application data
• Hierarchical data
• Durable key-value data
Common Workloads
• User profiles
• Product catalogs
• Game state
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FEATURES
• Atomic transactions
• High availability of reads and writes
• Massive scalability with high performance
• Flexible storage and querying of data
• Balance of strong and eventual consistency
• Encryption at rest
• Fully managed with no planned downtime
GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM CLOUD DATASTORE
ENTITIES, PROPERTIES, AND KEYS
• Cloud Datastore stores data in entities, properties and kinds
• Entities of the same kind can have different properties
• Different entities can have properties with the same name but
different value types
DATASTORE FIRESTORE RELATIONAL DATABASE
KIND COLLECTION GROUP TABLE
ENTITY DOCUMENT ROW
PROPERTY FIELD COLUMN
KEY DOCUMENT ID PRIMARY KEY
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DATASTORE VS. TRADITIONAL
• Cloud Datastore writes at scale by automatically distributing
data as necessary.
• Cloud Datastore reads at scale because the only queries
supported are those whose performance scales with the size of
the result set
• Cloud Datastore does not include support for join operations,
inequality filtering on multiple properties, or filtering on data
based on results of a subquery.
• Cloud Datastore is schemaless.
GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM CLOUD DATASTORE
CLOUD FIRESTORE OR DATASTORE
Cloud Firestore is a superset of Cloud Datastore, and can run in a
backwards-compatible Datastore mode
Cloud Firestore in Native mode (beta)
• Designed for use for mobile and web apps.
Cloud Firestore in Datastore mode (beta)
• Firestore in Datastore mode provides a improved Cloud Firestore
storage layer while keeping Cloud Datastore system behavior.
Cloud Datastore
• If your app requires a service level agreement (SLA), choose Cloud
Datastore.
GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM CLOUD DATASTORE
DEMO: CREATE A DATASTORE
1. Navigate to Storage > Datastore
2. Click on Create Entity
3. Specify Kind
4. Add Properties as required
5. Press the Create button
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REAL WORLD EXAMPLE
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