Bigtable is ideal for applications that need high throughput andscalability for key-value data, where each value is typically no larger than 10MB. Bigtable also excels as a storage en… See more

Bigtable stores data in massively scalable tables, each of whichis a sorted key-value map. … See more

The following diagram shows a simplified version of Bigtable'soverall architecture: As the diagram illustrates, all client requests go through a frontend serverbefore they are sent to a Bi… See more

Each Bigtable zone is managed by a primary process, which balancesworkload and data volume within clusters. This process splits busier or largertablets in half and merge… See more

Bigtable treats all data as raw byte strings for most purposes.The only time Bigtable tries to determine the type is forincrement operations, where the target must be a 64-bit integer … See more