Google Datastore vs CloudSQL

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I am working on standing up a mobile app with Google Datastore as backend database. I am debating whether google datastore is right choice for below use cases vs other datastorage options google offers. We are a small team and we don't want to incur lot of operations costs in the initial run. Application will have the following use cases:

  1. User registration and profile which will take user personal identification details like credit cards, bank account , emails,address etc

  2. Various subscription plans like yearly subscription price, monthly subscription price and pay per single service . User will be charged with bank account or credit card set on user profile

  3. Mobile app will be launched within next 2 months and i am expecting at-least 1000 users in first few months

Appreciate your feedback at this stage where we are laying down the foundation of the app

Thank you

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1 Answers

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Datastore is good to manage user profiles and the use cases that you're referring as well it has free quota amounts and low costs regarding its usage and it'll be a better option compared with Cloud SQL which price and storage capacity is limited to the machine type that you're using. Additionally, as this isn't a technical inquiry, but a solution concern, I suggest posting this on the Datastore Google Groups where ideas regarding the Datastore and other products would be properly exchanged.