[[Google Cloud Platform]] offers many storage and database options for relational and non-relational data depending on latency and i/o requirements. GCP encrypts all data at rest by default. - [[Cloud Storage]]: store objects (images, media, backups) or binary data - [[Cloud SQL]]: use a SQL database as a backend for web apps - [[Firestore]]: no-SQL document database - [[Filestore]]: network file storage - [[Cloud Spanner]]: horizontally-scalable SQL databases - [[Cloud Bigtable]]: high I/O data for non-relational data in analytics workflows - [[BigQuery]]: technically not a storage option but widely used for data retrieval - [[Memorystore]]: high-performance in-memory data storage system GCP has partnerships with some providers like [[neo4j]] to host an Aura graph database or the no-SQL database [[MongoDB]]. ## Firestore