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Articles and blog posts
2023
How Stairwell uses Bigtable for cybersecurity
Stairwell built an ML-powered cybersecurity platform on Bigtable.
Portto deploys its crypto wallet solution on Google Cloud to provide
glitchless user experiences
Portto indexes blockchain data
cost-effectively with Bigtable for its Blocto crypto wallet
solution.
When Norway introduced compulsory smart meters, Elvia met the data challenge
with a solution built on Google Cloud
Elvia, Norway's largest
grid provider, manages smart meter IoT data in Bigtable.
Magicpin connects retailers and customers through its digital
platform
Magicpin delivers location intelligence for retailers
with Bigtable.
FullStory achieves scalability and reliability with
Google Cloud
Cloud Storage and
Bigtable are the primary sources of data storage for the FullStory
product, receiving terabytes of data per day.
Reposit Power has used Google Cloud to guarantee $0
electricity bills
Reposit Power moved its massive time series
database to Bigtable and grew 10x in footprint with zero downtime
while reducing costs.
Arquivei creates architecture for data democratization with BigQuery
and Bigtable
Data tools and product team guidance
were major considerations when Arquivei decided to migrate to Google Cloud
from another cloud provider.
MainAd moved to Google Cloud for cybersecurity, achieving three times
faster time to value for its real-time bidding platform Logico
MainAd relies on Bigtable for high-quality ad retargeting.
SmartCoin began as a consumer lending platform on
Google Cloud
SmartCoin's ML feature store runs on
Bigtable.
Globo's journey from Cassandra to Bigtable
Globo saved 60% by moving from Apache Cassandra to Bigtable.
Igloo provides more affordable insurance and faster approvals with ML
models
Igloo brings IoT and ML data to insurance processing with
Bigtable.
Emarsys: Building a real-time data and AI platform with
Google Cloud
Emarsys relies on BigQuery and
Bigtable to empower AI-driven real-time user interactions.
Teemo builds its drive-to-store advertising platform on Google Cloud to
optimize geolocation data analysis
Teemo uses
BigQuery and Bigtable to improve omni-channel
advertising outcomes.
At Box, a game plan for migrating critical storage services from HBase to
Bigtable
Box improved speed of
development, saved operational costs, and leveraged analytics tools.
How YouTube uses Bigtable to power one of the world's largest
streaming services
YouTube uses Bigtable as a key
component within a larger data architecture powering its reporting dashboards
and analytics.
Bitly's MySQL to NoSQL journey for performance and scale
Bitly chose Bigtable to transition from MySQL to NoSQL.
How Credit Karma scaled its ML infrastructure with Bigtable and
BigQuery
Credit Karma used Bigtable to
scale its infrastructure and empower its data scientists to work faster and
more efficiently.
Tecton builds its ML platform with Bigtable as its online feature
store
Tecton used Bigtable as its online store
and leveraged the integrations to build a complete enterprise-grade feature platform.
PLAID's distributed message queue relies on Bigtable to process event streams
for truly real-time analytics
PLAID used Bigtable to
re-architect its core customer experience platform.
How BidFX manages forex tick data and derived data products in Bigtable for
liquidity provision analytics
BidFX uses Bigtable
for its LPA product to auto-scale seamlessly with no administrative or
maintenance effort.
How Uplight uses Bigtable, BigQuery, Databricks and
GKE to deliver analytical insights to energy providers
Uplight uses Bigtable to peak performance in its data
platform.
Hashport uses Bigtable to make decentralized finance faster, more scalable and
secure
Hashport uses Bigtable for efficient
infrastructure management.
2022
Built with BigQuery: Retailers drive profitable growth with
SoundCommerce
SoundCommerce builds multi-channel user
journeys by streaming user event data from multiple sources into
Bigtable.
Lightship VPS: How Niantic's API service works
Niantic uses
Bigtable to enable developers to build innovative AR experiences.
How Botify uses BigQuery, Compute Engine, Bigtable to
parse 5+ petabytes of web content each month
Botify used
Bigtable to crawl websites and come up with actionable insights
quickly.
How Google Ads scales personalization with
Bigtable
Bigtable is
used within Google to support user intent modeling for ad personalization.
Macy's scales up from mainframes to Bigtable to serve demanding
e-commerce workloads
Macy's leveraged Google Cloud
services to optimize efficiency.
MLB tracks every movement of the ball and each player in real time with
Bigtable for better sports analytics
Read about how MLB
uses Bigtable to store a constant stream of game data where each
season amounts to over 25 terabytes of information.
Moloco handles more than five million ad requests per second with
Bigtable
Moloco processes hundreds of
billions of bid requests every day with Bigtable, which offers
low latency and high scalability when accessing its history data.
Airship chooses Bigtable to empower mobile app
developers
Airship's story of how migrating its
HBase data to Bigtable saved them hours of HBase management time.
How Choreograph moved from Couchbase to Bigtable for scaling
advertising audience solutions
Moving to
Bigtable saved Choreograph costs of over 50%.
Lifesight: Building a unified consumer graph with Bigtable and
JanusGraph
Lifesight leverages Dataproc
and Bigtable to manage petabyte-scale data.
Purplle achieves 75% reduction in production costs while offering personalized
experiences
Purplle used Bigtable to
serve personalized recommendations to users within milliseconds.
Owlin scales to meet 20X user growth while reducing operational cost by
migrating from ElasticSearch to Bigtable
Bigtable helped Owlin scale automatically to handle peak
capacity.
How Yubo serves 130,000 daily livestreams to 45 million users with
Google Kubernetes Engine and Bigtable
Yubo
uses Bigtable to handle large analytical and operational
workloads.
Planet delivers geospatial analytics at an unprecedented scale with the help of
Bigtable
Planet uses
Bigtable to handle data that includes scanning of millions of
images each day.
How Bigtable helps Multiscale Health Networks securely host
patient health information and consolidate data for entire organizations onto a
unified hub
Bigtable securely hosts patient health
information for the platform and consolidates data.
Sabre chose Bigtable and Spanner to serve more than 1
billion travelers annually
Bigtable
was the right choice to handle Sabre's shopping engine cache that generates
millions of itineraries per second on behalf of travelers using mobile apps,
third-party travel websites, and airline call centers.
Raycatch: Reducing infrastructure costs for AI-led renewable energy tech by
80%
Raycatch chose Bigtable as its NoSQL
database to store incoming information from solar assets and to help them
perform sophisticated calculations.
3PM Solutions empowers global brands to manage, protect, and grow revenue
through e-commerce using Bigtable and Dataproc
3PM Solutions used Bigtable APIs to migrate its Hadoop
data quickly.
Joblift relies on Bigtable's flexible schema and versioning to
match candidates to available jobs
Bigtable was Joblift's choice to manage its candidate data
inventory.
2021
Why Ricardo chose Bigtable to complement
BigQuery
Bigtable helped Ricardo
save 13% net cost when using BigQuery.
How Wunderkind scales up to 200k requests per second using
Google Cloud
Bigtable played an
important role in helping Wunderkind scale efficiently.
BlaBlaCar matches 90 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries with
Bigtable
BlaBlaCar used
Bigtable to handle growing data and provide ease of integration
with BigQuery.
Broadcom migrates from HBase to Bigtable for security
analytics
Broadcom migrated from HBase
to Bigtable.
How Bigtable helps Ravelin detect retail fraud with low
latency
Bigtable's ability to ingest
large volumes of data and ease of accessing data helped Ravelin.
Kaiko builds a financial market data platform using Bigtable and
Memorystore
Kaiko used Bigtable and
Memorystore to support and manage 50 million daily transactions.
2020
Migrating our cloud infrastructure to Google Cloud
Sift Engineering migrated Google Cloud and evaluated and adopted
Bigtable.
Ecobee reduces operational cost and reduces query latencies by 10x for Smart
Home platform
Ecobee
optimized Google Cloud costs by using Bigtable.
Modernizing Twitter's ad engagement analytics platform
By leveraging Bigtable's linear scalability and extremely low
latency for data access, Twitter's serving system's P99 latencies decreased from
more than two seconds to 300 ms.
How OpenX serves over 150 billion ad requests per day
OpenX optimized operational cost using Bigtable and Memorystore
together.
Algolia explains how its real-time personalization engine leverages
Bigtable
Algolia designed its
Bigtable schema to process and store billions of events, allowing
them to scale personalization.
2019
Bigtable brings database stability and performance to
Precognitive
Precognitive solved its scaling
issues, reduced request latency, and saved time by moving to
Bigtable.
Aclima gathers billions of data points to support better environmental
decision-making
Aclima used data residing in
Bigtable to train a model to serve online predictions.
2018
Developing a JanusGraph-backed service on Google Cloud
Setting up a JanusGraph service that stores graph data in
Bigtable solves a graph problem.
Bigtable: Storing protobuf bytes in one column versus splitting the
content into column families/qualifiers
Travel Audience evaluated the performance impact of splitting protocol buffer data into multiple columns in Bigtable.
2017
Why Ravelin moved from DynamoDB to
Bigtable
Ravelin was motivated to move from DynamoDB to Bigtable.
How we moved our historical stats from MySQL to Bigtable with
zero downtime
Fastly migrated its Historical Stats API database from MySQL to
Bigtable.
How WePay uses stream analytics for real-time fraud detection using Google Cloud and Apache Kafka
WePay deploys a stream analytics pipeline for fraud detection, which gives
them answers to queries in near-real time without affecting its main
transactional business system. The pipeline uses several Google Cloud services,
including Bigtable and Dataflow.
How Qubit deduplicates streaming data at scale with
Google Cloud
Qubit uses Bigtable and Google Cloud to dedupe messages
at scale, with no self-managed components.
Scaling exactEarth's satellite vessel-tracking service using GeoMesa on
Google Cloud
Data services company exactEarth uses Bigtable and Google Cloud to
scale its solution for global geospatial analytics.
Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio
Spotify builds data pipelines by integrating Scio with several
Google Cloud services, including Dataflow and Bigtable,
which Spotify uses for large-scale batch jobs.
2016
Bigtable paper earns the SIGOPS 2016 Hall of Fame
Award
The 2006 paper "Bigtable: A
Distributed Storage System for Structured Data" earned a SIGOPS award.
Financial services firm processes 25 billion stock market events per hour with
Bigtable
FIS load-tested Bigtable's ability to process
simulated market events.
Energyworx analyzes petabytes of smart meter data with Bigtable,
Dataflow, and BigQuery
Energyworx decided to use Bigtable and Google Cloud to handle
its time series data.
2006
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Google published an academic paper describing Bigtable's design,
implementation, and data model, presented at the 7th USENIX Symposium on
Operating Systems Design and Implementation in 2006.
Videos
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Bringing the Cloud to the 4th Industrial Revolution - Presented by Oden
Technologies
Internet of Things (IoT) NY #51 2018
Podcasts
Bigtable with Ian Lewis
Interview with Ian Lewis, a Google Cloud Developer Advocate based in Tokyo,
about Bigtable.
Server Density with David Mytton
The CEO and founder of Server Density, a scalable infrastructure monitoring
software company, talks about its experience migrating from on-premises
MongoDB to Bigtable.