Your company processes high volumes of IoT data that are time-stamped. The total data volume can be several petabytes. The data needs to be written and changed at a high speed. You want to use the…

The correct answer is C. Cloud Bigtable. A is not correct because Cloud Datastore is not the most performant product for frequent writes or timestamp-based queries. B is not correct because Cloud Storage stores blobs, which cannot be queried. C is correct because Cloud Bigtable is the most performant storage option to…

Submitted by obi.ng· Mar 30, 2026Planning and configuring a cloud solution

Question

Your company processes high volumes of IoT data that are time-stamped. The total data volume can be several petabytes. The data needs to be written and changed at a high speed. You want to use the most performant storage option for your data. Which product should you use?

Options

ACloud Datastore
BCloud Storage
CCloud Bigtable
DBigQuery

How the community answered

(28 responses)

A
7% (2)
B
14% (4)
C
75% (21)
D
4% (1)

Explanation

A is not correct because Cloud Datastore is not the most performant product for frequent writes or timestamp-based queries. B is not correct because Cloud Storage stores blobs, which cannot be queried. C is correct because Cloud Bigtable is the most performant storage option to work with IoT and time series data. D is not correct because although it can store the data, BigQuery is very slow at changing data. https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/schema-design-time-series

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#Cloud Bigtable#IoT data#time-series storage#storage selection

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