We're building an application that reads data from an API and displays it in a frontend. Due to API limits, we have to cache the API calls meaning that we save the result of the API calls (both user information (first name, country, email etc.) and big sets of activity log data) in a database and only request new data from the API if the stored data is older than x hours.
This application should also work for multiple users that can log in and see their relevant data. For each user, the application connects to a different API endpoint (e.g. "user1.api.com/data/whatever" and "user2.api.com/data/whatever").
So, in the end there will be two databases. One for caching the API calls of an external tool and another one for the application's user management. However, we are not sure what would be best to use.
Is it generally a good idea to use cloud databases for either caching or user management? As the application will run on Google Container Engine, we could probably use Google Cloud Storage (for caching) and Firebase (for user management). Or should we rather use something like Redis / ElasticSearch (for caching) and something different for the different user data?
