Data Management Projects at Google

Summary: Bigtable scales to petabytes across thousands of commodity servers for diverse Google apps (web indexing, Earth, Analytics). It uses a simple data model and scalable architecture; the talk covers its data model, Google infra integration, and measured performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hdf19a81f777df905
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 7.0864941e-05
Overall Rank: 3,700 | 75.13%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142566

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wilson Hsieh (Google)
2. Jayant Madhavan (Google)
3. Rob Pike (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hsieh_sigmod06,
        title = {{Data Management Projects at Google}},
        author = {Hsieh, Wilson and Madhavan, Jayant and Pike, Rob},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142566},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142566},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,447	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00010627871
1,701	Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users' Event Feeds	2010	SIGMOD	9.8371359e-05
3,019	Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases	2009	SIGMOD	7.7461391e-05
4,643	Where in the World is My Data?	2011	VLDB	6.4891582e-05
5,498	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	6.1035636e-05
5,678	A Hierarchical Approach to Model Web Query Interfaces for Web Source Integration	2009	VLDB	6.0409774e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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