Choosing a Storage Solution: Guidelines to Consider

GCP offers multiple storage solutions. As a cloud engineer, you may have to help plan and implement storage solutions for a wide range of applications. The different storage solutions lend themselves to different use cases, and in many enterprise applications, you will find that you need two or more different storage products to support the full range of application requirements. Here are several factors to keep in mind when choosing storage solutions:

Read and Write Patterns Some applications, such as accounting and retail sales applications, read and write data frequently. There are also frequent updates in these applications. They are best served by a storage solution such as Cloud SQL if the data is structured; however, if you need a global database that supports relational read/write operations, then Cloud Spanner is a better choice. If you are writing data at consistently high rates and in large volumes, consider Bigtable...