BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable and a few other Google technologies. It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine.
Big Table development began in 2004 and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as web indexing , MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modify...
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BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable and a few other Google technologies. It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine.
Big Table development began in 2004 and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as web indexing , MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in BigTable, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Book Search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, Orkut, YouTube, and Gmail. Google's reasons for developing its own database include scalability and better control of performance characteristics.
BigTable maps two arbitrary string values (row key and column key) and timestamp (hence three dimensional mapping) into an associated arbitrary byte array. It is not a relational database and can be better defined as a sparse, distributed multi-dimensional...
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