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Google Cloud Platform for Architects
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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

by Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn Ravi, Judy Raj
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Solving performance issues

Because Bigtable is rather complicated, reasons for its poor performance are often hard to find. Here are some pointers that might help you if you are suffering from a badly performing Bigtable:

  • The first place to look would be at the schema design. Check if you have sequential keys causing hot-spotting, or causing the reads and writes to be concentrated in some specific shards. Some obvious keys to avoid are numeric sequences like 1011, 1012, 1013 and so on.
  • The next set of possible causes has to do with inappropriate workloads. Maybe your dataset is too small, less than 300 GB. That is not enough for Bigtable to really show its talents. Bigtable is best used when there is more than 1 TB of data and it can be ...
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