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Datastore runs on top of Megastore [1]. You can find out more about our data model here [2], but it's definitely not limited to key-value data.

Our end users don't have to think much about our storage system, though, if we're doing our jobs right. :)

[1] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/articles/balancing-s... [2] https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/concepts/entities



An interesting observation that I can't seem to "un-observe" is that Megastore is actually a lot more like MongoDB than one would expect.

Both ostensibly work best when the application fits a hierarchical data model (entity groups vs. documents), and provide out-of-the-box strongly-consistent transactions for a single entity group. MongoDB feels like schemaless Megastore.


:)

Here's a paper with which you might already be familiar, but it's one of the citations for the Megastore paper: http://adrianmarriott.net/logosroot/papers/LifeBeyondTxns.pd.... You'll probably enjoy it (if you haven't already!).




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