⚡ Delightful list of Google Bigtable resources, packages and interesting finds.

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Awesome Bigtable

Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads, built and managed by Google.

Contents

• Tools
  • Official Client Libraries
  • Other Client Libraries
  • Command-line
  • GUI
  • Emulators
  • Databases
• Resources
  • Articles & Blogs
  • Tutorials
• Cool Stuff
  • Inspired by Bigtable
  • Interesting Projects

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If you are new to Bigtable I'd recommend checking out the Bigtable Documentation. The docs are a great place to start, as you can view a full list of integrations, tutorials and other treats. This list is meant to be a curated list of awesome Bigtable "things" to supplement any official documentation.

Tools

A curated list of tools that will help you when working with or building on-top of Bigtable.

Official Client Libraries

• C++ - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable C++ client.
• C# - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable .NET client.
• Node.js - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable Node.js client.
• Python - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable python client.
• HappyBase - Official client which uses a HappyBase emulation layer which uses Bigtable as the underlying storage layer.
• Java - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable Java client.
• HBase Java - Official Java libraries and HBase client extensions for accessing Google Cloud Bigtable.
• Go - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable Go client.
• PHP - Official implementation of the Google Cloud Bigtable PHP client.

Other Client Libraries

• Rust Bigtable - Rust library for working with Google Bigtable Data API.
• AsyncBigtable - Implementation of AsyncHBase but on top of Google's Cloud Bigtable service.

Command-line

• cbt - Official command-line interface for performing several different operations on Cloud Bigtable.
• btcli - CLI client for the Bigtable with auto-completion.

GUI

• vscode-bigtable - VSCode extension that provides an easy to use GUI for querying bigtable instances.

Emulators

• Google Emulator - Official in-memory emulator for Cloud Bigtable, included with the Google Cloud SDK.
• Spotify Docker Bigtable - Docker container with an in memory implementation of Google Cloud Bigtable.
• Shopify Bigtable Emulator - In memory Go implementation of Bigtable.
• LittleTable - In-memory JVM-based emulator for Bigtable.

Databases

• Heroic - Scalable time series database based on Bigtable, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch.
• Janusgraph - Open-source, distributed graph database that can use Bigtable as its storage layer.
• GeoMesa - Suite of tools for working with big geo-spatial data in a distributed fashion, that can leverage Bigtable as its backend.
• GeoWave - Tool that provides geospatial and temporal indexing on top of Accumulo, HBase, Bigtable, Cassandra, and DynamoDB.
• HGraphDB - Client layer for using HBase (Bigtable) as a graph database.
• OpenTSDB - An Open Source Time Series Data Base that can levearge Bigtable as its storage layer.
• Cattle DB - Timeseries store built on top of Bigtable.
• YildizDB - Graph database layer on top of Bigtable.

Resources

A curated list of resources to help you get off the ground with Bigtable.

Articles & Blogs

• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data - Published on 2006.
• A NoSQL massively parallel table - Published on 2011-11.
• How we moved our Historical Stats from MySQL to Bigtable with zero downtime - Published on 2017-07.
• Medium @duhroach - Bigtable centric posts by Colt McAnlis, DA @ Google.
  • Cloud Bigtable Performance 101 - Published on 2018-11.
  • The right Cloud Bigtable index makes all the difference. - Published on 2019-1.
  • Cloud Bigtable : Getting the geography right - Published on 2019-1.
  • Using Cloud Bigtable Monitoring UI - Published on 2019-1.
• Bigtable: storing Protobuf bytes in one column vs splitting the content into column families/qualifiers - Published on 2018-1.
• Using Google Cloud Emulators in Integration Tests - Published on 2017-6.
• The Joy and Pain of using Google Bigtable - Published on 2019-1.

Tutorials

• Google Tutorials for Bigtable - List of official tutorials related to Bigtable.
• Cloud Bigtable Examples - Repo containing official examples of using Bigtable.
• Introduction to Google Cloud Bigtable - CloudAcademy provided intro tutorial to Bigtable (membership required).

Cool Stuff

A list of cool things related to Bigtable.

Inspired by Bigtable

• Apache Cassandra - Highly-scalable partitioned row store.
• Apache HBase - The Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.
• Apache Accumulo - Sorted, distributed key/value store that provides robust, scalable data storage and retrieval.
• Tera - High performance distributed NoSQL database.
• obigstore - Database with Bigtable-like data model atop LevelDB.

Interesting Projects

• YildizDB Bigtable - TypeScript Bigtable Client with 🔋🔋 included.
• Bigtable Autoscaler - Service that autoscales Bigtable clusters based on CPU load.

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