Google Cloud Datastore vs Sequelize: What are the differences?

Google Cloud Datastore: A Fully Managed NoSQL Data Storage Service. Use a managed, NoSQL, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales as you need it and supports transactions as well as robust, SQL-like queries; Sequelize: Easy-to-use multi sql dialect ORM for Node.js & io.js. Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and more.

Google Cloud Datastore and Sequelize are primarily classified as "NoSQL Database as a Service" and "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools respectively.

"High scalability" is the primary reason why developers consider Google Cloud Datastore over the competitors, whereas "Good ORM for node.js" was stated as the key factor in picking Sequelize.

Sequelize is an open source tool with 18.9K GitHub stars and 2.99K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sequelize's open source repository on GitHub.

WebbyLab, Hostr, and Decision6 are some of the popular companies that use Sequelize, whereas Google Cloud Datastore is used by Policygenius, Teleport, and Como. Sequelize has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to Google Cloud Datastore, which is listed in 45 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.