With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new NoSQL database offering today that, as the name implies, is powered by the company’s Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist that it’s ...

Apache HBase describes itself as “the Hadoop database,” which can be a bit confusing, as Hadoop is typically understood to refer to the popular MapReduce processing framework. But Hadoop is really an ...

If your data runs to hundreds of terabytes or more, look to Cloud Bigtable for high performance, ease of use, and effortless scaling without downtime When Google announced a beta test of Cloud ...

A database technology called Bigtable that search engine giant Google launched internally more than a decade ago and has spent the ensuing years perfecting as the underpinning of its search engine and ...

The cloud is forcing major platform companies to expose their secret sauce to the world. Last week at the Build conference, Microsoft announced Service Fabric, a microservices platform that the ...

The name, Bigtable, is not new. Google began developing its internal data storage system back in 2004, and wrote about it in a 2006 research paper. Google's ideas influenced a generation of developers ...

Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings, as a fully-managed cloud NoSQL database service. Set out by the search-to-cloud giant in an influential 2006 ...