tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post112802655549116043..comments2024-01-15T13:17:33.771-08:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Google's BigTableGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-46888243024676978712008-11-06T01:30:00.000-08:002008-11-06T01:30:00.000-08:00Bigtable for Gmail... It seems very dangerous If t...Bigtable for Gmail... <BR/><BR/>It seems very dangerous If they are working on the From/To/CC/Bcc links graph. :)Edward J. Yoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01322177995889925565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-64073340508507514272008-08-12T10:20:00.000-07:002008-08-12T10:20:00.000-07:00@ RobI don't remember where I read it for the firs...@ Rob<BR/><BR/>I don't remember where I read it for the first time. But I asked this question from Jeff Dean. He said maybe Gmail is older than bigtable. Which I don't think is the real reason, because Orkut is even older than Gmail, and it does use bigtable.<BR/>He also mentioned it could be because of the size of Gmail, not a suprise answer for me.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07177713007420278142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-57470599699964180052008-08-11T16:20:00.000-07:002008-08-11T16:20:00.000-07:00@aramHow do you know they don't?@aram<BR/><BR/>How do you know they don't?Rob Kohrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011841852767765694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-81615732415863366032008-03-09T17:00:00.000-07:002008-03-09T17:00:00.000-07:00Does anyone know why Google does not use Bigtable ...Does anyone know why Google does not use Bigtable for Gmail?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07177713007420278142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1129738954315275032005-10-19T09:22:00.000-07:002005-10-19T09:22:00.000-07:00There are a couple minor points I'd add to Mr. Hit...There are a couple minor points I'd add to Mr. Hitchcock's overview.<BR/><BR/>The largest BigTable they have is currently about 200 TeraBytes, which is less than the petabyte design goal. <BR/><BR/>Another interesting data point (to me) was that Google Earth's satellite imagery is 100+ TB and growing as higher resolution pics become available.<BR/><BR/>As pointed out in the overview various in house BigTable users run on their own clusters. According to the talk these clusters range in size from ten or twenty to hundreds of machines.<BR/><BR/>As a personal aside, the infrastructure that Google is building for large scale distributed computing (Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, etc.) is impressive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1129687814289377112005-10-18T19:10:00.000-07:002005-10-18T19:10:00.000-07:00Thanks, Andrew. That's a great writeup!Thanks, Andrew. That's a great writeup!Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1129686008715270282005-10-18T18:40:00.000-07:002005-10-18T18:40:00.000-07:00I just wrote an overview of the talk. Since you sa...I just wrote an <A HREF="http://andrewhitchcock.org/?post=214" REL="nofollow">overview of the talk</A>. Since you saw the talk, if you read my overview, I'd love to hear about any mistakes I made.Andrew Hitchcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12374490546610576558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1129679916556725752005-10-18T16:58:00.000-07:002005-10-18T16:58:00.000-07:00I just finished watching this. Impressive and int...I just finished watching this. Impressive and interesting stuff! I, too, am wondering where I could read more about this...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1129609269218344092005-10-17T21:21:00.000-07:002005-10-17T21:21:00.000-07:00I'm excited, I'm definitely going to be there. I w...I'm excited, I'm definitely going to be there. I went to the Dean talk last year, just after reading the MapReduce paper. Most of the presentation was stuff I had already read online, but the part about the synonyms was neat and I had never seen that system demonstrated (it was their internal tools, it seemed).<BR/><BR/>I did a Google for [BigTable] and this was the top result. I poked around some and couldn't find much else on the internet. Is this the first big, public presentation of their system?Andrew Hitchcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12374490546610576558noreply@blogger.com