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# Bigtable documentation

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Bigtable is a low-latency NoSQL database service for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing operations. It's a wide-column, key-value store that can scale to billions of rows and thousands of columns. With Bigtable, you can replicate your data to regions across the world for high availability and data resiliency.

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##  Documentation resources 

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues. 

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### Guides

  * [ Quickstart: Create an instance and write data with the cbt CLI ](/bigtable/docs/create-instance-write-data-cbt-cli)

  * [ Quickstart: Create and update counters ](/bigtable/docs/create-update-counters)

  * [ Schema design best practices ](/bigtable/docs/schema-design)

  * [ Create and manage tables ](/bigtable/docs/managing-tables)

  * [ Create and manage backups ](/bigtable/docs/managing-backups)




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### Reference

  * [ Cloud Bigtable service APIs ](/bigtable/docs/reference/service-apis-overview)

  * [ Cloud Bigtable client libraries ](/bigtable/docs/reference/libraries)

  * [ GoogleSQL reference ](/bigtable/docs/reference/sql/googlesql-reference-overview)

  * [ cbt CLI reference ](/bigtable/docs/cbt-reference)

  * [ cbt CLI overview ](/bigtable/docs/cbt-overview)




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### Resources

  * [ Pricing ](/bigtable/pricing)

  * [ Quotas and limits ](/bigtable/quotas)

  * [ Release notes ](/bigtable/docs/release-notes)

  * [ Get support ](/bigtable/docs/support/getting-support)

  * [ Bigtable locations ](/bigtable/docs/locations)




##  Related resources 

Training and tutorials

Use cases

Code samples

Explore self-paced training, use cases, reference architectures, and code samples with examples of how to use and connect Google Cloud services. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Introduction to Bigtable (Java) ](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/cloud-bigtable-intro-java/index.html)

Work through a codelab that teaches you how to avoid common schema design mistakes, import data, read your data, and then use it to generate a heatmap that shows New York City bus data. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Manage Bigtable on Google Cloud ](https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/quests/214)

Learn how to how to create an instance, design a schema, and perform administrative tasks in Bigtable. 

Training 

Training and tutorials

###  [ Benchmarking Bigtable with PerfKit Benchmarker ](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/tree/master/tutorials/bigtable_walkthrough)

Run YCSB benchmarks against Bigtable. 

Use case 

Use cases

###  [ Bigtable for Cassandra users ](/bigtable/docs/cloud-bigtable-for-cassandra-users)

Learn the differences between Bigtable and Apache Cassandra. 

Migration Cassandra Apache

Use case 

Use cases

###  [ Credit card fraud detection ](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/tree/main/bigtable/use-cases/fraudDetection)

Look at a sample application that uses Bigtable as a feature store to deliver a fraud-detection use case. 

Fraud detection Bigtable Dataflow

Code sample 

Code Samples

###  [ Java hello world ](/bigtable/docs/samples-java-hello-world)

Create a hello world application using the client library for Java. 

Code sample 

Code Samples

###  [ Go hello world ](/bigtable/docs/samples-go-hello)

Try a hello world example written in Go. 

Code sample 

Code Samples

###  [ C# hello world ](/bigtable/docs/samples-c-sharp-hello)

Get started with .NET on Bigtable. 

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