Features

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  Performance and durability

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    Performance and durability: With Cloud Storage, you can start with a few small files and grow your data lake to exabytes in size. Cloud Storage supports high-volume ingestion of new data and high-volume consumption of stored data in combination with other services such as Cloud Pub/Sub. While performance is critical for a data lake, durability is even more important, and Cloud Storage is designed for 99.999999999% annual durability.

    
    
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  Strong consistency

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    Strong consistency: One key characteristic that sets Cloud Storage apart from many other object stores is its support for strong consistency in scenarios such as read-after-write operations, listing buckets and objects, and granting access to resources. Without this consistency, you must implement complex, time-consuming workarounds to determine when data is available for processing.

    
    
    
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  Cost efficiency

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    Cost efficiency: Cloud Storage provides a number of storage classes at multiple prices to suit different access patterns and availability needs, and to offer the flexibility to balance cost and frequency of data access. Without sacrificing performance, you can access data from these various storage classes by using a consistent API. For instance, you can archive infrequently used data to Cloud Storage Nearline or Cloud Storage Coldline using a lifecycle policy, and then access it later, maybe to gather training data for machine learning, with subsecond latency.

    
    
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  Flexible processing

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