This chapter explores the two main NoSQL database services from Google Cloud Platform:

• Bigtable
• Datastore

Bigtable is optimized for fast scans: range queries or select all queries along a single column, and with very large datasets, on the order of petabytes in size. Datastore, on the other hand, is meant for far smaller data, on the order of terabytes, where the use case involves fast lookups independent of dataset size.