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.