What changed
Described Bigtable’s sparse distributed multidimensional data model, design and implementation for structured data at petabyte scale across thousands of commodity servers.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact OSDI 2006 paper and the system described there. Google File System, MapReduce, Dynamo, later cloud database services and subsequent Bigtable revisions remain separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact OSDI 2006 paper and the system described there. Google File System, MapReduce, Dynamo, later cloud database services and subsequent Bigtable revisions remain separate.
Contributors
- Fay Chang · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Jeffrey Dean · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Sanjay Ghemawat · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Wilson C. Hsieh · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Deborah A. Wallach · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Mike Burrows · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Tushar Chandra · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Andrew Fikes · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Robert E. Gruber · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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