Rumor: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Apr 6, 2008 02:12 · 85 words · 1 minute read
Interesting rumor, and totally plausible. Just as Amazon has thought “why not make some money off of all of this great infrastructure we’ve built”, it looks like Google is going to do the same thing: Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch.
This will be one more non-traditional database among the many interesting choices that exist today.