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Initializing data systems with products

Initializing data systems with products

- Initializing data systems with products, so we talked about the data storage and database services in Google Cloud. We have our relational databases, Cloud SQL and Spanner, our NoSQL database options, Firestore and Bigtable. We have Cloud Storage as the object storage, and we have then BigQuery for data warehousing and analytics, and we have Memorystore as an in-memory database, so let's take a look at each of these in terms of allocating and provisioning storage and data, so with Cloud SQL, when you create an instance, you basically define the storage type as standard HDD or SSD, SSD being faster but also more expensive. You define your storage capacity, which will be limited by the instance type you chose, and whether to enable automatic storage increase, which will automatically add storage capacity as you approach that limit. After instance creation in Cloud SQL, it is possible to increase storage but not decrease, so keep that in mind, so how do you go about creating a Cloud…

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