Google Cloud Bigtable: petabyte-scale NoSQL database for scalable computation

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Cloud Bigtable is Google’s petabyte-scale NoSQL store powering Search, Maps and Gmail and it exposes the same architecture via Cloud Bigtable with Colossus storage, HBase-compatible API, Go/Python clients and CBT. Clusters are zonal with SSD or HDD nodes, minimum three nodes and linear scaling roughly 10,000 QPS per node so 3-node minimum -> 30k QPS and customers run up to 3 million QPS at 300 nodes. Typical 99th‑percentile latency is ~6 ms and rows are limited to about 100 MB.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:35Agenda
3. 7:00Cloud Bigtable
4. 15:00Login to Cloud Console
5. 16:00Getting started with Cloud Bigtable
6. 20:35Quick example
7. 21:52Operations
8. 24:05Cloud Dataflow

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