Google Megastore

Google Cloud Datastore is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL document database service offered by Google Cloud Platform. It provides automatic scaling, high availability, and strong consistency for transactions within an entity group, making it suitable for web, mobile, and IoT applications…

Key facts

First appeared: 2008
Category: technology
Problem solved: Google Cloud Datastore was created to solve the challenge of providing a highly scalable, available, and automatically managed NoSQL database for web and mobile applications, eliminating the significant operational burden of managing traditional relational databases at scale.
Platforms: Google Cloud Platform

Related technologies

Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Functions
Google Cloud Run
Google App Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Cloud Client Libraries

Notable users

Spotify (for specific microservices)
Various startups and enterprises leveraging Google Cloud Platform
Snap Inc. (Snapchat)
Khan Academy