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Django apps that run on Google Cloud are running on the same
infrastructure that powers all of Google's products, which generally improves
the application's ability to adapt to a variable workload.
Hosting platforms
These are the available options for deploying Django on Google Cloud:
The Django object-relational mapper (ORM) works best with an SQL relational
database.
If you are starting a new project, Cloud SQL
is a good choice. You can deploy a PostgreSQL or MySQL database that's managed and scaled by Google, and supported by Django.
You can deploy Django with a Spanner backend using the python-spanner-django database backend.
Sometimes, there are compelling reasons to use a NoSQL database. Using the Django ORM with a
NoSQL database is possible, with some limitations, but not officially supported by Django. There are a number of community-supported backend connectors Datastore, including djangae if you're using App Engine, or django-gcloud-connectors if you're using Cloud Run. If you choose to use MongoDB, you can deploy it using Cloud Marketplace and do your own management, or you can use the managed MongoDB hosting service
provided by mLab.
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