Datastore

Description

The Datastore online store provides support for materializing feature values into Cloud Datastore. The data model used to store feature values in Datastore is described in more detail here.

Getting started

In order to use this online store, you'll need to run pip install 'feast[gcp]'. You can then get started with the command feast init REPO_NAME -t gcp.

Example

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: gcp
online_store:
  type: datastore
  project_id: my_gcp_project
  namespace: my_datastore_namespace

The full set of configuration options is available in DatastoreOnlineStoreConfig.

Functionality Matrix

The set of functionality supported by online stores is described in detail here. Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by the Datastore online store.

	Datastore
write feature values to the online store	yes
read feature values from the online store	yes
update infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store	yes
teardown infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store	yes
generate a plan of infrastructure changes	no
support for on-demand transforms	yes
readable by Python SDK	yes
readable by Java	no
readable by Go	no
support for entityless feature views	yes
support for concurrent writing to the same key	no
support for ttl (time to live) at retrieval	no
support for deleting expired data	no
collocated by feature view	yes
collocated by feature service	no
collocated by entity key	no

To compare this set of functionality against other online stores, please see the full functionality matrix.