Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Bigtable is Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's ideal for applications that need very high throughput and scalability for non-structured key/value data, where each value is typically no larger than 10 MB. Cloud Bigtable also excels as a storage engine for batch MapReduce operations, stream processing/analytics, and machine-learning applications.

Find Bigtable in the left side menu of the Google Cloud Platform Console, under Storage.

Get started

Here are links to setup instructions on cloud.google.com.

• What is Cloud Bigtable? Learn about Bigtable.

• Get started in the console: Create a Bigtable cluster.

• HBase Shell quickstart: Use the Apache HBase shell to connect to a cluster.

• Create a Compute Engine virtual machine instance for Bigtable: Create a Compute Engine VM instance if your application runs on Compute Engine and needs to use Bigtable as a resource.

• Install the Cloud Bigtable HBase client: Install the client on a Compute Engine VM instance or on your own machine.

• Create a Hadoop cluster for Bigtable: Use the bdutil command to create one or more Compute Engine VM instances that connect to a Bigtable cluster and run Hadoop jobs.

Developer resources

Here are links to developer resources on cloud.google.com.

Design your schema and manage data

• Design your schema: Learn about general concepts, size limits, row keys, column families and qualifiers, tall versus wide tables, and more.

• Manage tables: Use the Apache HBase shell to create, modify, and delete tables, and to get information about tables.

• Export and import data: Export and import data as Hadoop sequence files.

Code samples

• Code samples in the Github repository

• Run a Hadoop map/reduce job with Bigtable

• Create a simple command-line interface to Bigtable

Manage your cluster

• Monitor, modify, and delete clusters: Steps to manage clusters in the console.

Cloud Bigtable API

• HBase API and Bigtable: Communicate with Bigtable through the Cloud Bigtable Hbase client, a customized version of the standard Apache HBase client.

• Go Client and Bigtable: Use the Go client library for Bigtable.

Support

• Help and support: Ask questions, learn about support packages, and file bugs.