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Bigtable Components
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Let's explore the components that constitute BigTable.

As described previously, a BigTable cluster consists of three major components:

  1. A library component that is linked into every client
  2. One master server
  3. Many Tablet servers

BigTable master server

There is only one master server in a BigTable cluster, and it is responsible for:

  • Assigning Tablets to Tablet servers and ensuring effective load balancing
  • Monitoring the status of Tablet servers and managing the joining or failure of Tablet server
  • Garbage collection of the underlying files stored in GFS

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