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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 1Question 16
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage optionsBigtableDatabasesDomain 2.3

    GCP ACE · Question 16 · Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage options

    Your application generates massive amounts of time-series IoT data (petabytes). You need a NoSQL database capable of high-throughput, low-latency writes and reads. Which service is MOST appropriate?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Firestore

    B.

    Cloud SQL

    C.

    Cloud Bigtable

    D.

    Cloud Spanner

    How to approach this question

    Identify the database designed specifically for high-throughput, low-latency NoSQL workloads at petabyte scale.

    Full Answer

    C.Cloud Bigtable✓ Correct
    Cloud Bigtable is Google's fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads. It is ideal for storing very large amounts of single-keyed data with very low latency, making it perfect for IoT, time-series, and financial data.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Firestore, which is NoSQL but optimized for document storage and mobile sync, not massive write throughput.
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