Cloud BigTable - davidkhala/gcp-collection GitHub Wiki

Design by Google research

• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Shared design with HBase

Key features

• key-value store with consistent, single-digit millisecond latency
• sparse table, support billions of rows and thousands of columns
• Ensure high availability with multi-primary replication in up to 8 regions
• integration with big data tools like
  • Hadoop
  • GCP services: Dataflow, and Dataproc
  • Support HBase API standard
• eventual consistency
• Scalability
  • horizontal scale: adding Bigtable nodes without any downtime to increase QPS (queries per second)
  • autoscale