Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore

Well suited for: Games, Chat rooms, real time software like corporate events, marathons and so. Anytime and anywhere you could use a NoSQL DB you should think of SimpleDB.

As an arduous AWS user, Amazon SimpleDB easily integrates with EC2 and other AWS module; and if you are not an AWS user, you also have a fantastic tool that will solve the problem for which you are focused.

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I feel like Google Cloud Datastore is well suited when the data models are simple and the possible filtering and sorting operation are not complex. With more complex filtering, the amount of required indexes increase, and so does the costs.

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• Flexibility
• Easy to learn and use
• AWS integration

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• It is hosted in GCP, our primary cloud provider.
• It integrates with all the services we use in GCP.

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• Non AWS environments
• Strict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)

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• Part of the Google Cloud Platform walled garden.
• Pay for read/writes to the datastore, in addition to storage.
• Not many libraries exist.

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I give Google Cloud a full score because it satisfies our needs so well. We host most of our infrastructure on Google Cloud and using Google Cloud Datastore helps us to solve our NoSQL storage problem. and Google Cloud Datastore is so scalable and elastic. It saves us lots of time to maintain and saves us money.

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The simple implementation, together with the Google Cloud dashboard that allows data inspection, editing and querying, makes Google Cloud Datastore a comprehensive choice when it comes to NoSQL databases.

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It integrates beautifully with AWS. In some projects we use SimpleDB while we use DynamoDB for others, according to the characteristics of the project. If the infrastructure is AWS, we always think of one of them.

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If deploying an application in Google Cloud Platform, using Google Cloud Datastore is a no brainer because of the simplicity of setup. Other options would require more setup and configuration, and do not come with the same level of guaranteed uptime as Google Cloud Datastore. In our case, we've been using Google Cloud Datastore for 4 years without any issues and have never had to think about it.

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• Reduced database administration time
• Reduced data model analysis time
• Lower cost of resources in projects in general

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• It solves our NoSQL database problem.
• It it highly scalable and available to meets our needs.

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