Bigtable Paper (2006)
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“Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data” (2006) — Chang et al.
Introduced the wide-column data model: rows, column families, and timestamps. Designed for petabyte-scale structured data with consistent low-latency access. Built on GFS and Chubby. Directly inspired HBase and partially inspired Cassandra’s data model.
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