Bigtable Paper Publication

Google published the influential paper 'Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data,' detailing their internal, petabyte-scale distributed database. This paper laid the conceptual and architectural groundwork for Datastore.

Significance

Bigtable provided the proven, scalable, and highly available infrastructure upon which Datastore would be built, demonstrating Google's internal expertise in distributed data management.

Key facts

Date
2006-11-01
Type
research_publication
Location
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA