Google Cloud Bigtable is Google’s NoSQL Big Data database service. It’s thesame database that powers many core Google services, including Search,Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Cloud Bigtable API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Supported Python Versions

Python >= 3.7

Deprecated Python Versions

• Python 2.7: the last released version which supported Python 2.7 wasversion 1.7.0, released 2021-02-09.

• Python 3.5: the last released version which supported Python 3.5 wasversion 1.7.0, released 2021-02-09.

• Python 3.6: the last released version which supported Python 3.6 wasversion v2.10.1, released 2022-06-03.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-bigtable

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-bigtable

Next Steps

• Read theClient Library Documentation for Cloud Bigtable APIto see other available methods on the client.

• Read theProduct documentation to learnmore about the product and see How-to Guides.

google-cloud-happybase

In addition to the coregoogle-cloud-bigtable, we provide agoogle-cloud-happybase librarywith the same interface as the popularHappyBase library. Unlike HappyBase,google-cloud-happybase usesgoogle-cloud-bigtable under the covers,rather than Apache HBase.