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Between Cloud Storage, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud Filestore, I can't make heads or tails of the situation without diving into the docs. I was confused when the
by faitswulff 8y ago
Between Cloud Storage, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud Filestore, I can't make heads or tails of the situation without diving into the docs.
I was confused when they introduced Cloud Firestore to compete with their Realtime Database (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rtdb-vs-firestore https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rtdb-vs-firestore). Now it seems like they're doing it again with Storage vs Filestore, not to mention the horrendous choice of names.
- lathiat 8y agoCloud Filestore specifically gives you a multi-host NFS interface (for traditional filesystem applications) like Amazon EFS - for applications you cant easily modify to use other APIs it appears like a normal filesystem. Cloud Storage is an API-level object store (e.g. S3) that requires specific application support.