Bigtable

There is a clue in the name, but Bigtable is GCP's big data NoSQL database service. Bigtable is low latency and can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns. It's also the database that powers many of Google's core services, such as Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail. This makes Bigtable a great choice for analytics and real-time workloads as it's designed to handle massive workloads at low latency and high throughput.

Exam Tip

Bigtable can support petabytes of data and is suitable for real-time access and analytics workloads. It's a great choice for Internet of Things (IoT) applications that require frequent data ingestion or high-speed transactions.

Given Bigtable's massive scalability, we will cover the storage model and architecture. When we discuss Bigtable, we will make references to HBase. HBase is effectively an open source implementation of the Bigtable architecture and follows the same design philosophies. Bigtable...