Question

A media company collects massive volumes of raw data from many sources: video files, JSON logs, sensor readings, and CSV exports. The data science team wants to keep everything in its original, unprocessed format at low cost so they can explore and transform it later for various analytics and machine learning projects. Which Google Cloud data management approach best fits this need?

Accepted Answer

Build a data lake using Cloud Storage to hold raw, diverse data in its native format

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Store all data in a Cloud SQL relational database with a rigid schema defined upfront

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Load everything into a BigQuery data warehouse only after fully cleaning and structuring it

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Use Firestore to store the raw video, log, and sensor data as document collections