Google Bigtable Paper Published

The paper 'Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data' by Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, and Sanjay Ghemawat was published, detailing the foundational technology behind Datastore.

Significance

This paper unveiled Google's internal, highly scalable NoSQL database, providing the conceptual and technical blueprint for systems like Datastore, and profoundly influencing the broader NoSQL movement.

Key facts

Date
2006-11-01
Type
invention
Location
Google Inc., Mountain View, California