Google Introduces Cloud Bigtable to Woo Big Enterprises
May 7, 2015
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In a bid to boost its cloud offerings, search giant Google Inc. launched Cloud Bigtable, the managed NoSQL database it has been using internally for a number of years to store huge amounts of data online. A public beta version is now available, that is, it’s open to all developers but doesn’t provide a service level agreement or technical support.
The service costs 65 cents per node with one node delivering up to 10,000 reads and writes per second. Storage on SSD is priced at 17 cents per gigabyte a month on a pay-as-you-go basis. Cloud Bigtable is claimed to be a fully managed, high-performance and highly scalable NoSQL (not only SQL) database service compatible with the open-source Apache HBase application programming interface (API) that most developers are already comfortable with…
Cloud Bigtable incorporates and integrates with other Google big-data products, including messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software BigQuery. Cloud Bigtable is said to offer single-digit millisecond latency. Latency is the time it takes the system to retrieve information or carry out instructions after a request is made…
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