Bigtable: A distributed storage system for structured data ​

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Abstract Link to heading

• Bigtable is a distributed storage system for petabytes of data across thousands of servers

Introduction Link to heading

• Four goals:
  • wide applicability
  • scalability
  • high performance
  • high availability
• Bigtable is non structured, data is indexed by column and row

Data Model Link to heading

• (row: string, column: string, time: int64) -> string
• Data is uninterpreted array of bytes