GOOGLE HAS LAUNCHED a new database for its cloud infrastructure. But this is no ordinary announcement, because users can for the first time get their hands on the same database on which Google itself is built.
Google Cloud Bigtable offers double the performance of its nearest competitor, according to the firm, offering hot data speeds at cold data prices.
The INQUIRER caught up with product manager Cory O'Connor fresh from the announcement to tell us more.
"Originally we wrote a white paper and the outside world loved it. This is core foundational technology for Google. Almost everything at Google runs on it in one way or another," he said.
"So after years of improvement, it's really exciting for us to be able to go after really big data sets - problems which have taken a tremendous amount of energy to approach."
The HBase-based database uses Google's might to make an offering on a different scale to its open source cousin.
"It's a new NoSQL product in the Google Cloud platform. This falls within the storage and big data offerings we provide because it offers storage, but it is also embedded within the analytics and big data processing fields," O'Connor said.
"Large customers will be able to store all their data, so they won't have a memory gap. Anywhere that produces a big ton of data, this product is for them."
The genesis of Bigtable is as a distro of HBase, the open source NoSQL database. Google has been refining it for 10 years, but this is the first time it has gone into public hands.
"We actually built this to use internally. This is the database that Google runs on, and we've had an alpha programme of external customers trying it out, and they loved it," explained O'Connor.
"One of the main reasons is that it's a fully managed system. We do all the complicated stuff."
O'Connor pointed out that the best people to run the same database that Google runs on, is probably going to be Google.
"After all, we know how to run Google, so we know how to run Bigtable and we're offering it as a platform-as-a-service, so we become their ops team, effectively.
One of the aims of the exercise is to get people away from spending resources on managing complex products that are incidental to their skills and back to the things that really matter.
"Hadoop is hard. Databases are hard. That's what customers tell us, and the analysts too, but we're managing it so it won't be hard anymore," he said.
As such, pricing is very competitive. "It's priced at 65c per node. Each node is 10Mbps, or 10,000 operations of read or write per second," said O'Connor.
"SSD storage is 17c per gigabyte-month and HDD storage is 2.6c per gigabyte-month, which is incredibly low for a hot database. It's competitive with cold cloud storage."
"It is proprietary, but it's just the implementation that is different. If you are using Base Table, you are using HBase, you are using the actual open source API that ships," said O'Connor.
"We have this wonderful relationship with the open source community, and particularly the HBase community.
"The interface to Bigtable is through the standard HBase API, which means that there's no lock in. If they're dissatisfied, if they're worried, they can take the data out easily and put it back on-premise. But it's my job to make sure they're not unhappy and don't want to do that."
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