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Google Cloud Bigtable: Designing and Operating Databases

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Google Cloud Bigtable: Designing and Operating Databases

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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6 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design scalable and highly available Bigtable architectures for large-scale data workloads

  • Deploy, manage, and scale Bigtable clusters for real-world cloud applications

  • Optimize database performance, cost, and reliability using Google Cloud Bigtable

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March 2026

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This course is part of the Exam Prep: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer Specialization
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There are 2 modules in this course

Welcome to Week 1 of the course. This week focuses on understanding the architecture and reliability foundations of Google Cloud Bigtable. You will begin by exploring the Bigtable overview and how it is designed to support large-scale NoSQL workloads. You will then learn how to analyze database capacity and usage planning variables to ensure efficient performance for high-throughput applications. Next, you will explore how to evaluate high availability and disaster recovery strategies, helping ensure that Bigtable deployments remain reliable and resilient. This week also covers how applications connect to Bigtable, along with key considerations for database connectivity and access management in Google Cloud environments. You will also learn how to evaluate appropriate database solutions on Google Cloud. Finally, you will explore how to configure database monitoring and troubleshooting mechanisms and design backup and recovery solutions to maintain database reliability and operational stability. By the end of this week, you will understand how to design reliable Bigtable database architectures in Google Cloud environments.

What's included

8 videos3 readings2 assignments

Welcome to Week 2 of the course. This week focuses on optimizing and scaling Bigtable databases to support large-scale and high-performance workloads. You will begin by learning how to optimize database cost and performance, ensuring efficient resource utilization in Google Cloud. Next, you will explore solutions to automate database management tasks, helping improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention. You will also learn how to design and implement data migration solutions and apply concepts to build highly scalable and available Bigtable databases. The week also includes practical demonstrations where you will explore adding clusters, provisioning Bigtable instances, evaluating cost, and implementing scaling strategies. By the end of this week, you will understand how to optimize, scale, and manage Bigtable databases effectively in Google Cloud environments.

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8 videos2 readings2 assignments

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