# Google Cloud Bigtable

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Cloud Bigtable and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Google's managed wide-column database handling massive scale; people praise its engineering and small-team maintenance. Few report hands-on production use.

## Why people recommend it

- Handles very large scale (2 comments): "Bigtable these days handles seven-billion requests per second over several exabytes of data." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211626)) "I also had a lot of experience running a large BigTable/Elasticsearch custom graph database" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415004))

## What people warn about

- Little firsthand production experience (1 comments): "I hear good things about Big Table, but I've never used in in production." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082117))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Amazon RDS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-rds.md): 50 recommend
- [Neon Postgres](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neon.md): 48 recommend
- [DynamoDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-dynamodb.md): 46 recommend
- [Cloudflare D1](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-d1.md): 36 recommend
- [PlanetScale](https://hackerapproved.com/p/planetscale.md): 33 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Cloud Bigtable", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bigtable/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).