Talk:BigTable

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[edit] BigTable Status

It's completely proprietary and unavailable outside of Google, correct? Could that be mentioned somewhere in the article? -Olegos 20:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


This article probably needs a reference to Mondrian based on Guido's Google Video TechTalk. I'll see if I can't insert a reference somewhere.

[edit] Column or row?

I'm not much on databases, but I think BigTable is row-oriented: the paper says "BigTable maintains data in lexicographic order by row key." --Gwern (contribs) 21:06 5 December 2006 (GMT)

It's column - the column or row distiction is based on how you physically store the data. A traditional database writes each record (ie each row) in one spot. BigTable stores the data for each column together. If you want to read all of the values in a row it will take multiple reads, one for each column group that row uses. --Erik s paulson 19:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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