Google Cloud/Bigtable

Overview

Bigtable features:

• sparsely populated table
• billions of rows, thousands of columns
• ideal data source for MapReduce operations
• TB to PB of data
• large amounts of single-keyed data with low latency
• fast read write throughput, low latency
• fully managed - design your schema and you're done
• example applications: marketing data, financial data, IoT data, time series data

From the original white paper: "A Bigtable is a sparse, distributed, persistent multidimensional sorted map. The map is indexed by a row key, a column key, and a timestamp; each value in the map is an uninterrupted array of bytes."

Resources

Bigtable paper (2006): http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf