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A Go client for Google Cloud Bigtable
Friday, July 17, 2015
Good news, Go programmers: the
Go client library
for Google Cloud Bigtable is now available.
Cloud Bigtable
is a massively scalable NoSQL database that drives many of Google’s most data-intensive applications, including search, Gmail, Google Earth, and YouTube.
The
Go programming language
is gaining popularity and becoming a favorite tool for building Cloud applications. Now, in addition to the Java HBase API, you can access the power of Cloud Bigtable using an
idiomatic Go API
.
The Go API has many benefits:
Easy to Install:
Runing
go
get
google
.
golang
.
org
/
cloud
/
bigtable
will install the required library. There's no step 2.
Simple API:
The Go client library is a simpler interface than the Java HBase API.
Low Level:
The API is a thin wrapper around the Cloud Bigtable
gRPC
interface, so it closely reflects the underlying RPCs. This makes it easy to reason about the performance and cost characteristics of your program.
Full access to Cloud Bigtable features:
Scans, row filters, conditional mutations, read-modify-write operations, and middle-out compression are all supported.
The Go client is already being used by customers for serious work, so now is a great time to try it out. Check out the
sample applications
on GitHub,
read the docs
, and
let us know what you think
.
- Posted by David Symonds, Software Engineer
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