Talk:Bigtable

Reference page number

The page number for the "page needed" reference in the second section with the quote "better defined as a sparse, distributed multi-dimensional sorted map" is Page 1. I'm not sure how to edit the reference. Hope this helps. --76.21.11.140 (talk) 21:36, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

BigTable Status

It's completely proprietary and unavailable outside of Google, correct? Could that be mentioned somewhere in the article? -Olegos 20:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

This article probably needs a reference to Mondrian based on Guido's Google Video TechTalk. I'll see if I can't insert a reference somewhere.

Column or row?

I'm not much on databases, but I think BigTable is row-oriented: the paper says "BigTable maintains data in lexicographic order by row key." --Gwern (contribs) 21:06 5 December 2006 (GMT)

It's column - the column or row distiction is based on how you physically store the data. A traditional database writes each record (ie each row) in one spot. BigTable stores the data for each column together. If you want to read all of the values in a row it will take multiple reads, one for each column group that row uses. --Erik s paulson 19:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization

I'm looking at the paper, and it seems that they always capitalize it with a lowercase 't', as in Bigtable (which redirects to BigTable). I'm thinking that this is an error that started due to programmers' familiarity with CamelHump notation, as well as the fact that similar Google products (MapReduce) do use CamelHump. If someone who knows more about Wikipedia than I could fix the redirects and the capitalization in the article itself, that would be lovely. (I'd do the capitalization in the article myself, but without the redirect it would just be reverted.) --158.130.63.7 (talk) 02:27, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

• I agree. Just noticed this same thing. Thiseye (talk) 16:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
• +1. The references from Google all use a lowercase 't'. Agthorr (talk) 16:39, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
• I've fixed the article's text, but I need someone with more knowledge to fix the redirects. Jefesaurus (talk) 22:35, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
• Fixed: Bigtable is canonical; BigTable now redirects to Bigtable.

SQL

This article is listed on nosql as being a non-relational database. Can anyone confirm this and add this info to the article? --Caue (T | C) 16:38, Friday 2010-08-13 (UTC)

Written in Java (not)

Not sure what the reference is for the claim for Java as a primary language, but as of 2013 when I left (after 5 years) all of the core infrastructure was in C++ and C++ alone.

Source'ish, the original BigTable paper, which has a few mentions of a C++ API but no mention of Java: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

2601:646:4000:5229:28FB:CB52:D09A:3795 (talk) 16:57, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

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GFS not defined

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Opensource or proprietary/paid?

Is Bigtable open source (like Cassandra) or proprietary/paid? Does it only run on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) or on other platforms such as AWS or on-prem? FreeFlow99 (talk) 08:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)