Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing
structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size. petabytes of data across thousands of
servers.
Invented by google.
Published in 2007 as a paper with full implementation.
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach
Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber