Google today announced the beta release of Cloud Bigtable, a new managed NoSQL database on the Google Cloud Platform. At the core of the new service is Google’s Bigtable database, which Google ...

TechCrunch is speculating that Google may begin the first major phase of becoming an infrastructure provider for developers by exposing its BigTable data storage system as a Web service. This service ...

Now that Microsoft is, in theory, giving away part of its architecture via Azure Stack, Google is also electing to monetize a key ingredient of its infrastructure. Google Cloud Bigtable is a ...

Google LLC is updating two of its most popular managed cloud databases as part of a continuing effort to reduce the operational complexity of using the services. The updates, announced at the ...

To be fair, HBase and Cassandra share similar features and design goals. Both have an extensible data model loosely based on Google's BigTable, and both aim for very high transaction rates on huge ...