Google Cloud Bigtable
Ranked 10 of 15 managed databases by recommenders
Google's managed wide-column database handling massive scale; people praise its engineering and small-team maintenance. Few report hands-on production use.
Google's managed wide-column database handling massive scale; people praise its engineering and small-team maintenance. Few report hands-on production use.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Handles very large scale
“Bigtable these days handles seven-billion requests per second over several exabytes of data.”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?” “I also had a lot of experience running a large BigTable/Elasticsearch custom graph database”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Little firsthand production experience
“I hear good things about Big Table, but I've never used in in production.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years”
Other managed databases people recommend
The four most recommended other managed databases, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon RDS | 50 | 43 | 54% | 11 | — | — |
| Neon Postgres | 48 | 10 | 83% | 12 | — | Approved |
| DynamoDB | 46 | 31 | 60% | 11 | — | — |
| Cloudflare D1 | 36 | 30 | 55% | 10 | — | — |
| Google Cloud BigtableThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Bigtable these days handles seven-billion requests per second over several exabytes of data.”
“They wrote the paper, they did not build it.”
“They made impressive technologies that still hold up today”
“I also had a lot of experience running a large BigTable/Elasticsearch custom graph database”
“I hear good things about Big Table, but I've never used in in production.”
“If Google can build and maintain Bigtable with like a dozen devs then maybe you don't need 200 people”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.