You want to process payment transactions in a point-of-sale application that will run on Google Cloud Platform. Your user base could grow exponentially, but you do not want to manage infrastructure sc

The correct answer is D. Cloud Datastore. Explanation/Reference: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview

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Question

You want to process payment transactions in a point-of-sale application that will run on Google Cloud Platform. Your user base could grow exponentially, but you do not want to manage infrastructure scaling. Which Google database service should you use?

Options

ACloud SQL
BBigQuery
CCloud Bigtable
DCloud Datastore

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B
6% (1)
C
6% (1)
D
89% (16)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/overview

Topics

#Cloud Datastore#database selection#auto-scaling#NoSQL

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