Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview
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BigTable: Introduction

Let’s explore Bigtable and its use cases.

Goal

Design a distributed and scalable system that can store a huge amount of structured data. The data will be indexed by a row key where each row can have an unbounded number of columns.

What is BigTable?

BigTable is a distributed and massively scalable wide-column store. It is designed to store huge sets of structured data. As its name suggests, BigTable provides storage for very big tables (often in the terabyte range).

In terms of the CAP theorem, BigTable is a CP system, i.e., it has strictly consistent reads and writes

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· 5 years ago

"BigTable can be used as an input source or output destination for MapReduce jobs.

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