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A team is developing a mobile-enabled web application on Google Cloud that must manage two distinct data types:
Which combination of Google Cloud storage services should the team select to store the user profile data and media assets, respectively?
Cloud Firestore is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL document database designed for automatic scaling, high performance, and flexible document data models. Cloud Storage is Google Cloud's highly scalable, secure, and durable object storage service built to store and serve unstructured files and binary data.
Separating semi-structured application metadata into a document store (Firestore) and unstructured binary blobs into an object store (Cloud Storage) follows cloud architecture best practices. Storing binary assets directly inside database rows or documents degrades database indexing performance and inflates costs, whereas pairing Firestore with Cloud Storage achieves optimal performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
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