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Cloud Bigtable Bigtable

Low-latency, horizontally scalable wide-column NoSQL database service for operational and analytical workloads.

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Naming timeline

  1. Cloud Bigtable

    · Beta Launch

    Launched externally as Cloud Bigtable.

  2. BigtableCurrent name

    · Database Portfolio Prefix Simplification

    Dropped the 'Cloud' prefix in documentation and product branding to become Bigtable.

What is Cloud Bigtable called now?

Cloud Bigtable is now called Bigtable, with the latest change in 2022 (Database Portfolio Prefix Simplification). Low-latency, horizontally scalable wide-column NoSQL database service for operational and analytical workloads. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.

Also known as

  • Google Cloud Bigtable

Technical identifiers

Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.

REST / gRPC APIsbigtable.googleapis.com bigtableadmin.googleapis.com
gcloud / CLI Commandsgcloud bigtable cbt
IAM Predefined Rolesroles/bigtable.*
Terraform Resourcesgoogle_bigtable_instance google_bigtable_table

API titles remain Cloud Bigtable API (bigtable.googleapis.com) and Cloud Bigtable Admin API (bigtableadmin.googleapis.com).

Notes & disambiguation

  • Google Cloud dropped the 'Cloud' prefix from Cloud Bigtable across official documentation and product navigation, simplifying the customer-facing name to Bigtable.
  • In the Cloud Console API Library, the underlying endpoints (bigtable.googleapis.com and bigtableadmin.googleapis.com) are still titled 'Cloud Bigtable API' and 'Cloud Bigtable Admin API'.

Sources & official documentation

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