At Google I/O, we announced Google Cloud Datastore, a fully managed solution for storing non-relational data. Based on the popular Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD), Cloud Datastore provides a schemaless, non-relational datastore with the same accessibility of Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud SQL.
Cloud Datastore builds off the strong growth and performance of HRD, which has over 1PB of data stored, 4.5 trillion transactions per month and a 99.95% uptime. It also comes with the following features:
- Built-in query support: near SQL functionality that allows you to search, sort and filter across multiple indexes that are automatically maintained
- ACID transactions: data consistency (both Strong and Eventual) that spans multiple replicas and requests
- Automatic scaling: built on top of Google's BigTable infrastructure, the Cloud Datastore will automatically scale with your data
- High availability: by utilizing Google's underlying Megastore service, the Cloud Datastore ensures that data is replicated across multiple datacenters and is highly available
- Local development environment: the Cloud Datastore SDK provides a full-featured local environment that allows you to develop, iterate and manage your Cloud Datastore instances efficiently
- Free to get started: 50k read & write operations, 200 indexes, and 1GB of stored data for free per month
Getting started with Cloud Datastore
To get started, head over to the Google Cloud Console and create a new project. After supplying a few pieces of information you will have a Cloud Project that has the Cloud Datastore enabled by default. For this post we'll use the project ID cloud-demo.
Read more: Google developers blog
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