Big Table

Big Table paper review

Definition:

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size

Tablet: Large table broken into tablet at boundary

Background:

Many Google applications such as web indexing, google earth use BigTable to store data.

这些服务无论从数据大小，or latency requirement 都有很大不同

characteristics:

-Simple data model:

dynamic control over data layout and format

-Data is indexed using row and column names

-Bigtable schema parameters let clients dynamically control whether to serve data out of memory or from disk.

-Based on GFS to store data and log files

Components:

-One master server 

-library linked into every client  (client communicate directly with tablet for read&write, 和GFS 原理一样)

-Dynamically added tablet server (Used to store table,each tablet server store ten to a thousand tables)