A film studio archives raw footage, rendered clips and nightly system snapshots, mostly as large binary files that are rarely queried by row. Which service should hold this archive?
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Answer: D
Cloud Storage is object storage designed for unstructured data such as video files, rendered images and backups. Objects are stored in buckets and accessed by name rather than queried by row, and they are offered in storage classes priced for different access frequencies. That suits a studio archive of large binary assets.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed relational database for structured, transactional data. It is not designed to hold large media files and snapshots as objects.
- B. Firestore is a document database for application data, sized for many small records. Storing large binary footage there would be a poor fit for archival object storage.
- C. Dataproc runs managed Spark and Hadoop clusters for processing data. It is a compute service rather than a place to keep the archive itself.