Google Cloud Datastore
Google Cloud Datastore was a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL document database service provided by Google Cloud Platform. It offered automatic scaling, high availability, and support for ACID transactions within entity groups, making it suitable for web and mobile applications requiring…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Google Cloud Datastore was created to solve the challenge of storing and managing large volumes of non-relational data for web and mobile applications without the operational burden of managing traditional database infrastructure. It provided automatic scaling, built-in redundancy, and robust transactional capabilities for individual records, which was difficult and costly to achieve with self-managed relational or early NoSQL databases.
- Platforms
- Google Cloud Platform
Related technologies
Notable users
- Organizations leveraging GCP for web and mobile backend services
- Snapchat (early adopter of App Engine and its Datastore)
- Many small to medium-sized businesses and startups using Google App Engine
- Google (internally for various services)