Bigtable is a low-latency NoSQL database service for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing operations. It's a wide-column, key-value store that can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns. With Bigtable, you can replicate your data to regions across the world for high availability and data resiliency.

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Introduction to Bigtable (Java)

Work through a codelab that teaches you how to avoid common schema design mistakes, import data, read your data, and then use it to generate a heatmap that shows New York City bus data.

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Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud

Learn how to how to create an instance, design a schema, and perform administrative tasks in Bigtable.

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Use cases

Credit card fraud detection

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Java hello world

Create a hello world application using the client library for Java.

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Code Samples

Go hello world

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Code Samples

C# hello world

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