Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development. While the Cloud Datastore interface has many of the same features as traditional databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way it describes relationships between data objects.

• Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Using the client library

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Google Cloud Datastore API.

4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

5. Install the client library:

    npm install --save @google-cloud/datastore
   

6. Try an example:

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const {Datastore} = require('@google-cloud/datastore');

async function quickStart() {
  // Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
  const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

  // Creates a client
  const datastore = new Datastore({
    projectId: projectId,
  });

  // The kind for the new entity
  const kind = 'Task';
  // The name/ID for the new entity
  const name = 'sampletask1';
  // The Cloud Datastore key for the new entity
  const taskKey = datastore.key([kind, name]);

  // Prepares the new entity
  const task = {
    key: taskKey,
    data: {
      description: 'Buy milk',
    },
  };

  // Saves the entity
  await datastore.save(task);
  console.log(`Saved ${task.key.name}: ${task.data.description}`);
}
quickStart().catch(console.error);

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Tasks	source code
Concepts	source code

The Cloud Datastore Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be General Availability (GA). This means it is stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE

What's Next

• Cloud Datastore Documentation
• Cloud Datastore Node.js Client API Reference
• github.com/googleapis/nodejs-datastore

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.