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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Training
Training and tutorials
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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Training and tutorials
Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud
Learn how to how to create an instance, design a schema, and
perform administrative tasks in Bigtable.
Training
Training and tutorials
Benchmarking Bigtable with PerfKit Benchmarker
Run YCSB benchmarks against Bigtable.
Use case
Use cases
Bigtable for Cassandra users
Learn the differences between Bigtable and Apache Cassandra.
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Use cases
Credit card fraud detection
Look at a sample application that uses Bigtable as a feature store to deliver a fraud-detection use case.
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Code Samples
Java hello world
Create a hello world application using the client library for Java.
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Code Samples
Go hello world
Try a hello world example written in Go.
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Code Samples
C# hello world
Get started with .NET on Bigtable.
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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.
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