Top "Bigtable" questions

Bigtable is a distributed storage system (built by Google) for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.

What database does Google use?

Is it Oracle or MySQL or something they have built themselves?

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What is an SSTable?

In BigTable/GFS and Cassandra terminology, what is the definition of a SSTable?

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What's the difference between BigQuery and BigTable?

Is there any reason why someone would use BigTable instead of BigQuery? Both seem to support Read and Write operations …

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Join operation with NOSQL

I have gone through some articles regarding Bigtable and NOSQL. It is very interesting that they avoid JOIN operations. As …

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bigtable vs cassandra vs simpledb vs dynamo vs couchdb vs hypertable vs riak vs hbase, what do they have in common?

Sorry if this question is somewhat subjective. I am new to 'could store', 'distributed store' or some concepts like this. …

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what is a commit log?

in google's bigtable context, what does a commit log mean? and what is the use of a commit log?

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Google Bigtable vs BigQuery for storing large number of events

Background We'd like to store our immutable events in a (preferably) managed service. Average size of one event is less …

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storing massive ordered time series data in bigtable derivatives

I am trying to figure out exactly what these new fangled data stores such as bigtable, hbase and cassandra really …

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SQL query : inner joins optimization between big tables

I have the 3 following tables in a MySQL 4.x DB : hosts: (300.000 records) id (UNSIGNED INT) PRIMARY KEY name (VARCHAR 100) paths: (6.000.000 …

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Bigtable Practical Example

Can someone provide a real-world example of how data would be structured within a Bigtable? Please talk from a search …

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