Cloud Bigtable

In the last lesson, we looked at the ways to store unstructured data using Cloud Storage. From this lesson, we will look at the databases which stores structured data. And first in the line is BigTable. So, let’s start.

Introduction

If the data is analytical and you want to have low latency and frequent updates to the data, then Bigtable is the appropriate database choice. Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads.

Cloud Bigtable is a sparsely populated table that can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns, enabling you to store terabytes or even ...