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GCP ACE · Question 15 · Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage options
Your company is building a global financial trading platform. The application requires a fully managed relational database that provides strong consistency, horizontal scalability, and high availability across multiple regions globally.
Which Google Cloud database service should you choose?
Your company is building a global financial trading platform. The application requires a fully managed relational database that provides strong consistency, horizontal scalability, and high availability across multiple regions globally.
Which Google Cloud database service should you choose?
Answer options:
A.
Cloud SQL
B.
Cloud Spanner
C.
Cloud Bigtable
D.
Firestore
How to approach this question
Look for the combination of 'relational', 'horizontal scalability', and 'global'.
Full Answer
B.Cloud Spanner✓ Correct
Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is the only GCP database service that combines the benefits of relational database structure (SQL, ACID transactions, strong consistency) with non-relational horizontal scale and global distribution.
Common mistakes
Choosing Cloud SQL because it is relational, ignoring the 'horizontal scalability' and 'global' requirements.
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