Cloud Bigtable is Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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Guides

• Quickstarts: cbt command-line tool or HBase Shell

• Designing your schema

• Schema design for time series data

• Understanding performance

• Importing and exporting data

• Managing tables

• Overview of replication

• Managing backups

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Reference

• cbt tool reference

• cbt tool overview

• Client libraries

• Access control

• Dataflow Connector

• Integrations with Cloud Bigtable

• Apache Beam + Cloud Bigtable Connector overview

• Service APIs overview

• Status codes

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Resources

• Pricing

• Quotas & limits

• Release notes

• Getting support

• Media: articles, videos, and podcasts

• Cloud Bigtable locations

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Training and tutorials

Try Cloud Bigtable tutorials, training courses, and Qwiklabs from Google Cloud.

Codelab

Introduction to Cloud Bigtable (Java)

Work through a codelab that teaches you how to avoid common schema design mistakes, import data, read your data, and then use it to generate a heatmap that shows New York City bus data.

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Tutorial

Capturing Cloud Bigtable tracing and metrics

Implement client-side tracing and metrics recording in your workloads by using OpenCensus and Google Cloud's operations suite.

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Tutorial

Using Cloud Bigtable with Cloud Functions

Learn how to how to send a Cloud Bigtable read request using a Cloud Functions HTTP(S) request.

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Tutorial

Running JausGraph with Cloud Bigtable

Store and query graph data with Cloud Bigtable and JanusGraph.

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

Migrate queries from Cassandra to Cloud Bigtable

Step through a guide to migrating queries from Apache Cassandra to Cloud Bigtable.

Migration Cassandra Apache

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Use case

Migrate data from HBase

Migrate data from an Apache HBase cluster to a Cloud Bigtable cluster.

Migration Apache HBase

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Use case

Use Cloud Bigtable in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline

The Cloud Dataflow connector for Cloud Bigtable is useful for both batch and streaming operations.

Dataflow streaming batch

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Java hello world

Create a hello world application using the client library for Java.

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Go hello world

Try a hello world example written in Go.

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C# hello world

Get started with .NET on Cloud Bigtable.

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Cloud Bigtable code examples

View a collection of code samples that use the client libraries.

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Videos