In my association we have a database site to manage various aspects of our work.
We have datasets that go from small to huge, like our members database, with ~8000 members per year. We were thinking that it could be a good idea to use google fusion tables instead of our host database to store this kind of big data.
What do you think about it? is it a reliable system? Are there rows number limitations? In average, due to google servers power, is it going to be faster than our Dreamhost database?
PS: We use wordpress as platform.
Thanks!
If you're worried about storage or bandwidth you'd be better off upgrading your server i.e. going to dedicated platform etc.
Google Fusion Tables is good for stats and comparing data with other people in the cloud. It's definitely not the place to store sensitive member information.
Plus if you use this as your primary database Google owns it and has the ability to shut it down anytime or read from it.
Just something to think about.