Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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BigTable Characteristics

We have now covered how BigTable stores data, keeps it safe, and makes it fast. It's worth stepping back for a few characteristics: the kind of consistency it offers, how it compares to Dynamo, and the other systems it inspired.

BigTable performance

BigTable earned its performance and its popularity for a few reasons:

  • Distributed multi-level map. BigTable runs across a large number of machines.
  • Scalable. Adding nodes scales BigTable horizontally, with no performance hit, no manual work, and no rebalancing

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