Bigtable lecture notes | Distributed system course | Rutgers university | Paul Krzyzanowski | Fall 2018

Jan. 10, 2022

Introduction

I like to type word by word and then I can learn better through my typing. I do think that it is best investment to learn lecture notes about BigTable. 

Lecture notes

Here is the lecture slides. 

Bigtable

• Highly avaiable distributed storage
• Built with semi-structured data in mind
• URLs: content, metadata, links, anchors, page rank
• User data: preferences, account info, recent queries
• Geography: roads, satellite images, points of interest, annotations
• Large scale    
• Petabytes of data across thousands of servers
• Billions of URLs with many versions per page
• Hundreds of millions of users
• thousands of queries per second
• 100TB+ satellite image data

Uses

At Google, used for:

• Google analytics
• Google Finance
• Personalized search
• Blogger.com
• Google Code hosting
• Youtube
• Gmail
• Google Earth & Google Maps
• Dozens of others... over sixty products

A big table

    Bigtable is NOT a relational database

    Bigtable appears as a large table

    "A Bigtable is a sparse, distributed, persistent multidimensional sorted map"

    

Will continue!