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The 37th IPP Symposium

Infrastructure for Personalized Search

Jeffrey Korn '94, Google

This talk will present Bigtable, a system for storing and managing very large amounts of structured data. Data is organized into tables with rows and columns, but unlike a traditional database system, the row/column space can be sparse. The system is designed to manage several petabytes of data distributed across thousands of machines, with high update and read request rates coming from thousands of simultaneous clients.