App Development: Storing Application Data in Cloud Datastore

Datastore

Datastore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development.

Datastore features include:

• Atomic transactions
• High availability of reads and writes
• Massive scalability with high performance
• Flexible storage and querying of data
• Balance of strong and eventual consistency
• Encryption at rest
• Fully managed with no planned downtime

Firestore in Datastore mode

Firestore is the newest version of Datastore and introduces several improvements over Datastore. Existing Datastore users can access these improvements by creating a new Firestore in Datastore mode database instance. In the future, all existing Datastore databases will be automatically upgraded to Firestore in Datastore mode.

In the below video, you will learn how to harness Cloud Shell as your development environment, preview the application, and update the application code to integrate Cloud Datastore.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSCphu6CiQ