Migrate data to Bigtable
This page provides guidelines to help you plan your data migration toBigtable from other database services. These resources cover differentstrategies to migrate workloads, including online replication and offlinemethods.
To understand the workloads that are best suited for Bigtable, seetheBigtable overview. The guides listed onthis page can help you plan and achieve your database migration.
Migrate data from HBase
When you migrate from an HBase installation to Bigtable, youcan use Google-provided open source tools that assist with your data migrationand validation.
- Replicate from HBase toBigtable: Complete anonline migration with almost no downtime using the BigtableHBase replication library.
- Migrating data from HBase toBigtable offline: Migrate from anApache HBase cluster to a Bigtableinstance on Google Cloud offline.
- Migrate from HBase hosted onGoogle Cloud: Migrate toBigtable from an HBase cluster that is hosted on aGoogle Cloud service, such as Dataproc.
Migrate data from Cassandra
The following resources are useful if you are an administrator planning tomigrate workloads from Apache Cassandra to Bigtable.
- Bigtable for Cassandrausers: Learn the core similarities and differences between the two services.
- Migrating from Cassandra: Useopen-source tooling to migrate from Apache Cassandra and interact withBigtable using Cassandra Query Language (CQL) syntax.
- Bigtable codelab for Cassandrausers:Practice migrating queries from Cassandra to Bigtable.
Migrate data from DynamoDB
If you are considering a migration from DynamoDB to Bigtable, readthe following guide for a discussion of similarities and differences between thetwo.
Use a Google-provided migration tool that helps you migrate your datafrom DynamoDB to Bigtable.
Migrate data from Aerospike
If you are planning to migrate from Aerospike to Bigtable, usethe following tutorial to get started.
Migrate from Vertex AI Feature Store (Legacy)
To prepare for a migration from Vertex AI Feature Store (Legacy) toBigtable, read the overview:
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.