Is it possible to use Google BigQuery to channel Google Documents into Tableau? Is there another way to do this without downloading the documents from drive onto a local machine?
If you are using tableau 8.0, there is data connection item for Google BigQuery so i would say yes
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In my google console it says here Cloud Storage pricing
that the price for standard storage is $.026 per gigabyte month, which I think means that 500 gigs stored during one month will cost $13 since 500 * .026 = 13. But this article The Google Drive Price Cut Changes The Game For Personal Cloud Storage says:
Google is making a terabyte of cloud storage available for just $10
I don't see where you upload data to Google drive at Google cloud console.
My second question is that I want to make sure that I can create a virtual instance and connect it to Google drive or Storage and read the data from it and put that data into the RAM of the virtual instance.
Google Drive
is a web application which works as a file store allowing users to store files. Communication with it is normally done though the web application itself however developers can use the Google drive api to interact with google drive programticlly.
You may want to go though the documentation on the Google drive api to understand what its capable of.
Google cloud storage
is designed as a Unified object storage for developers and enterprises Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use Cloud Storage for a range of scenarios including serving website content, storing data for archival and disaster recovery, or distributing large data objects to users via direct download.
Interaction with this is done primarrly though the cloud console and command line tools.
I don't see where you upload data to Google drive at Google cloud console.
You dont cloud console wont help you upload to google drive.
My second question is that I want to make sure that I can create a virtual instance and connect it to Google drive or Storage and read the data from it and put that data into the RAM of the virtual instance.
Google drive is a web application you cant create a virtual instance of that.
You might want to go though a few of the quickstarts to understand how Google cloud console and the command line tool work Quick Starts
Google drive is technically based on google cloud storage.
and they have this API (https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/appdata) and this API (https://developers.google.com/realtime/overview ~which had been deprecated) for developers, so that we can use google drive as our mobile or web app database.
The question is, since google cloud storage and google drive are the same, can we use google cloud storage as database?
i.e creating a file in google cloud storage and use it for Create, Read, Update and Delete operation (the typical one).
Google Cloud Storage and Google Drive are not the same, nor is one based on the other. They are entirely separate products.
You can use the Google Cloud Storage API to create Cloud Storage objects, and you can use the Google Drive API to create Google Drive objects. I'm not sure about the Realtime API, but as it's being turned down, I wouldn't advise making use of it.
The successor to that API, Cloud Firestore, is a good choice, and Firebase's cloud storage is built on top of Google Cloud Storage.
I have been looking for quite some time and cannot seem to find the answer I need. I tried using the iframe tag method for Google Docs Viewer to view my files and noticed that pptx, xlsx, etc... PDF seems to be the only one that is visible. So I came to the conclusion I have to use Google Drive and it's API. If that is so, my question is... Can I keep these files hosted on my clients server and use the API to view the files or do they have to be hosted on Google Drive's cloud server? Thank you.
No, this is not possible, sorry. All files are stored on the Google Drive cloud servers.
What kind of database can be created to handle data in google drive ?
I want to create a google drive app where I have to save some data (text) for future manipulation.
I don't exactly understand your question. You can save any file to Google Drive. So, if you want to back up a file-based database like SQLite3, you can.
I want to build desktop application for Windows OS and use Google Drive to save some data in the cloud. After reading Google Drive SDK I found that only Web-applications, were installed from Chrome Web Store are allowed to use API and have access to data on Google Drive.
So my question: do I have any way to build native client (C++, Windows) for Google Drive? I know about hacks with using Google Docs API - but they can stop working any time, and I want something stable. Why Google team do not allow me create desktop application for their service? I have support of many other cloud storages and they do not have such restrictions.
Thanks.
For now you will have to use the (older) Google Document List API which provides full read-write and list access to Google Drive. (Google Drive and the former Google Docs use the same data)
So until we extend the capabilities of the current Drive API to cover the Google Document List use case you should use that instead.
EDIT: We just launched the v2 of the Google Drive SDK so you should now use that instead.
I have been working on a similar problem. I have realized that there is no straight forward way for doing this. Google Drive SDK is not easy to work with and how someone can simplify the process of connecting desktop application to Google drive shortly. I know this is not much help, but I am looking for a soltuion as well.
Here is some links that I have come across, haven't solved my problem either, but if you come to a solution please let us know PLEASE:
How to make GUI Client to upload file in java
Using Java APIs for downloading file from the Google Drive
http://www.coderanch.com/t/643120/Servlets/java/upload-file-drop-box-file