Hacker News Reader

Comment by wiradikusuma | Hacker News Reader

How is it different than Datastore? https://cloud.google.com/datastore/

datastore is a copy of Google Megastore service. It has indexes, sql like queries, transactions.. and you don't need to run servers like with BigTable (you pay for documents and api calls only)

Why would I want to manage instances?

Well that's up to you to decide :)

I don't believe you need to manage anything with BigTable.. "instances" is a concept to describe iterations of scale only

From the docs, under "Cloud Bigtable and other storage options"

  If you need to store highly structured objects, or if 
  you require support for ACID transactions and SQL-like
  queries, consider Cloud Datastore.

I thought the same, and found this while digging through the documentation: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/#title_short_and_othe...

> If you need to store highly structured objects, or if you require support for ACID transactions and SQL-like queries, consider Cloud Datastore.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com