Cloud Bigtable

Question 1

Cloud Bigtable description

Answer 1

a petabyte-scale fully managed NoSQL database service

Question 2

Key points of Cloud Bigtable (6)

Answer 2

1. can manage billions of rows and thousands of columns - not all rows need to use all columns
2. low-millisecond latency - can support millions of operations per second
3. based on NoSQL wide-column data model, not document database
4. Supports Hbase API for Hadoop
5. Integrates with open source tools for data processing, graph analysis and time-series analysis
6. runs in clusters and scales horizontally

Question 3

What are 3 usages for Cloud Bigtable?

Answer 3

applications with high data volume and high velocity ingest of data

1. time series
2. iot
3. financial applications

Question 4

How do you import or export data to/from Bigtable?

Answer 4

There are no options via console or shell. You need to use a java application or use HBase interface to execute HBase commands