Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Bigtable is Google Cloud's fully managed, wide-column NoSQL database service. It is the same technology that powers some of Google's core services — Search, Maps, and Gmail. Bigtable is designed for massive analytical and operational workloads that require consistent sub-10ms latency at petabyte scale.

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What Is Cloud Bigtable?

Cloud Bigtable is a high-performance, low-latency NoSQL database designed for:

• Massive scale — handles petabytes of data with billions of rows.
• Consistent low latency — single-digit millisecond reads and writes.
• High throughput — millions of operations per second.
• Seamless scaling — add or remove nodes without downtime.
• HBase compatible — supports the Apache HBase API, making migration from on-premises HBase straightforward.

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Data Model

Bigtable uses a wide-column data model: