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"compressed, high performance and proprietary database built on Google File System (GFS), Chubby Lock Service and a few other Google programs; it is currently not distributed or used outside of Google. It was begun in 2004 [1] and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as MapReduce*, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in BigTable[2] Google Reader [3], Google Maps[4], Google Print, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, and Orkut[4]. Google's reasons for developing its own database include licensing costs, scalability, and better control of performance characteristics.[5]
It is a fast and extremely large-scale system database, with a focus on quick reads from columns, not rows. It's designed to scale into the petabyte range across hundreds or thousands of machines, and to make it easy to add more machines to the system and automatically start taking advantage of those resources without any reconfiguration"
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