Google Opening BigTable
By Daniel Miessler on April 5th, 2008: Tagged as Database | Google
BigTable is Google’s proprietary, non-relational database that powers Google Search and tons of its other products. It’s based on GoogleFS — their own filesystem — that allows them to get scary access speeds from multiple systems in a cluster.
It’ll be interesting to see what developers can do with this as a service.
[ Google Opening BigTable as a Web Service ]
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