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A global manufacturing company needs to collect and analyze real-time operational data from thousands of factory sensors worldwide. They require a highly scalable, fully managed, and cost-effective service that can ingest millions of events per second and integrate with downstream analytics platforms. Which Google Cloud service is best suited for this requirement?
- ACloud Storage
- BCloud Pub/Sub
- CCloud SQL
- DBigQuery
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Correct answer: B. Cloud Pub/Sub
Cloud Pub/Sub is a real-time messaging service designed for ingesting and delivering high volumes of events. It is fully managed, highly scalable, and ideal for streaming data from IoT devices and integrating with other analytics services.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Storage is an object storage service, suitable for storing large files but not for real-time message ingestion and delivery.
- C. Cloud SQL is a relational database service, not designed for real-time, high-volume event ingestion.
- D. BigQuery is a data warehouse for analytics, not an ingestion service for real-time streaming data.
Cloud Pub/Sub
Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.
- Scalable to ingest millions of events per second.
- Decouples senders and receivers.
- Used for streaming analytics, event-driven architectures, and data integration.
Memory trick: Publish and Subscribe to get your data in real-time.