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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

You're reading from Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform An end-to-end guide to processing and analyzing big data using Google Cloud Platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788839686

Length 282 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Thodge

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing Cloud Analytics FREE CHAPTER

2. Design and Business Considerations

3. GCP 10,000 Feet Above – A High-Level Understanding of GCP

4. Ingestion and Storing – Bring the Data and Capture It

5. Processing and Visualizing – Close Encounter

6. Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI on GCP

7. Guidance on Google Cloud Platform Certification

8. Business Use Cases

9. Introduction to AWS and Azure

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Index

Cloud Spanner

Now we are on the sixth topic: Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, and relational database service that offers transactional consistency at a global scale, schemas, SQL, and automatic synchronous replication for high availability.

Cloud Spanner offers:

Strong consistency
SQL support
Managed instances with high availability through transparent, synchronous, and built-in data replication
Regional and multi-regional instance configurations

When to use

Cloud Spanner is ideal for relational, structured, and semi-structured data that requires high availability, strong consistency, and transactional reads and writes. In most cases, Cloud SQL would suffice your requirement, but Cloud Spanner can be a real savior when we are talking about consistency and high availability.

Special features

Cloud Spanner comes with great features. Transaction consistency and enterprise grade security top the list of those features. It is really a very highly available service, so...

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Authors (1)

Thodge

Thodge

Sanket Thodge is an entrepreneur by profession based out of Pune, India. He started his journey in the service industry, but soon incorporated startup with the name Pi R Square Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. With expertise in Hadoop Developer, he explored Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, and Blockchain. He has also applied for a patent in IoT and has worked with numerous startups and multinationals in providing consultancy, architecture building, development, and corporate training across the globe.

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