Google Bigtable Paper Publication

Google publishes its seminal paper on Bigtable, describing a distributed storage system for managing structured data at petabyte scale. This paper laid the theoretical and practical foundation for Datastore.

Significance

This publication demystified Google's internal scaling secrets and inspired a generation of distributed database research and development, directly leading to Datastore's underlying architecture.

Key facts

Date
2006-11-06
Type
invention
Location
Seattle, Washington (OSDI '06)