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Big picture perspective:- At minimum, know which managed database is the best solution

for any given use case:- Relational, non-relational?- Transactional, analytics?- Scalability?- Lift and shift?

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UnstructuredData

Warehouse

Cloud SQL Cloud SpannerCloud

DatastoreCloud Bigtable Cloud Storage BigQuery

Structured dataWeb framework

RDBMS+scaleHigh transactions

Semi-structuredKey-value data

High throughput analytics

Unstructured dataHolds everything

Mission critical apps

Scale+consistency

Medical recordsBlogs

Global supply chainRetail

Product catalogGame state

GraphsIoT

Finance

MultimediaAnalytics

Disaster recovery

Large data analytics

Processing using SQL

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Decision tree criteria:- Structured (database) or unstructured?- Analytical or transactional?- Relational (SQL) or non-relational (NoSQL)?- Scalability/availability/size requirements?

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