Google’s own Billy Jacobson joins hosts Mark Mandel and Mark Mirchandani this week to dive deeper into Cloud Bigtable. Bigtable is Google’s petabyte scale, fully managed, NoSQL database. Billy elaborates on what projects Bigtable works best with, like time-series data user analytics, and why it’s such a great tool. It offers huge scalability with the benefits of a managed system, and it’s flexible and easily customized so users can turn on and off the pieces they need.

Later, we learn about other programs that are compatible with Bigtable, such as JanusGraph, Open TSDB, and GeoMesa. Bigtable also supports the API for HBase, an open-source project similar to Bigtable. Because of this, it’s easy for HBase users to move to Bigtable, and the Bigtable community has access to many open source libraries. Billy also talks more about the nine clients available, and when customers might want to use Bigtable instead of, or in conjunction with, other Google services such as Spanner and BigQuery.



Billy Jacobson

Billy Jacobson is a developer programs engineer focusing on Cloud Bigtable.

Cool things of the week


Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud blog
Firebase Unity Solutions: Update game behavior without deploying with Remote Config blog
Introducing the BigQuery Terraform module blog
Macy’s uses Google Cloud to streamline retail operations blog


Interview


Cloud Bigtable site
GCP Podcast Episode 18: Bigtable with Ian Lewis podcast
BigQuery site
Bigtable Documentation docs
Codelab: Introduction to Cloud Bigtable site
Key Visualizer docs
Bigtable Replication Documentation docs
Bigtable and HBase Documentation docs
HBase site
JanusGraph site
Open TSDB site
GeoMesa site
Bigtable Client Libraries docs
Cloud Spanner site
Managing IoT Storage with Google’s Cloud Platform (Google I/O’19) video
Cloud Datastore site
Cloud Firestore site
Mapping the invisible: Street View cars add air pollution sensors site
Breathing Easy with Bigtable article


Question of the week

If I have an organization, how do I break down my billing data by folder?

Where can you find us next?

Mark Mirch is working around town but will be headed to LA soon.

Mark Mandel will be at Pax Dev, Pax West, Kubecon, and the GDC Online Games Technology Summit.