Leveraging them is easier than you might think, especially if you start with a domain model, rather than a relational one. Check out IBM DeveloperWorks ‘ “ Schemaless data modeling with Bigtable and ...

TechCrunch is speculating that Google may begin the first major phase of becoming an infrastructure provider for developers by exposing its BigTable data storage system as a Web service. This service ...

Google today announced the beta release of Cloud Bigtable, a new managed NoSQL database on the Google Cloud Platform. At the core of the new service is Google’s Bigtable database, which Google ...

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 ...

To be fair, HBase and Cassandra share similar features and design goals. Both have an extensible data model loosely based on Google's BigTable, and both aim for very high transaction rates on huge ...

Google LLC is updating two of its most popular managed cloud databases as part of a continuing effort to reduce the operational complexity of using the services. The updates, announced at 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 ...

Amazon Web Services has added another "big data" alternative to its menu of Web services by adding support for HBase, the Hadoop-based database. HBase, which is modeled on Google's BigTable database, ...