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When to use Cloud Firestore or Cloud Bigtable

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When to use Cloud Firestore or Cloud Bigtable

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- [Instructor] When to use Cloud Firestore or Cloud Bigtable. Now, I love this question because when you're looking at NoSQL databases on GCP there is a lot of different ways you can do things, but ultimately, in a lot of cases for a lot of customers, it really comes down to Cloud Firestore or Cloud Bigtable. And I'm going to show you when and why you would use each one right now. So looking at this decision tree right off the Google Cloud Solutions website, I really like looking at this because it can give you a really good visualization of when to use each database, and we talked about this earlier in the course when we talked about Cloud SQL and Spanner, but now we're going to talk about Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Firestore. Now, I want to point out from the beginning there is a Cloud Datastore icon in here and that was the older version of Cloud Firestore. So, it's the same thing, just wanted to point that out, but the…

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