Google Bigtable Paper Publication

Google publishes its seminal paper 'Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data', detailing its internal NoSQL system that powered many Google services.

Significance

This paper provided a concrete, real-world example of a massively scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance non-relational database in production, influencing countless subsequent NoSQL designs.

Key facts

Date
2006-11-01
Type
release
Location
Global (via academic publication)