Tech riderRev. 29 Sept 2026
Google Cloud Bigtable
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2Costsfree trial · paid from $0.03/mo
2 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: cloud.google.com

Overview
Google Cloud Bigtable is ranked #21 of 74 in database software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $0.03/mo.
Google Cloud Bigtable plans and pricing
All plansData Boost Free per serverless processing unit per hour On-demand isolated compute for batch processing cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
Standard backup storage $0.03/mo per GB per month Incremental backups · Billed by physical backup size cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
HDD storage $0.03/mo per GB per month Infrequent Access uses HDD at the same rate · Each replica billed separately cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
Hot backup storage $0.12/mo per GB per month Optimized for reduced restore time · Billed by physical backup size cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
Compared on database software
- Free plan
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Facts
- Product
- Bigtable is a fully managed, low-latency NoSQL database service for machine learning, operational analytics, and user-facing applications.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Data model
- It is a key-value and wide-column store for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- SQL
- Bigtable supports SQL queries, including a SQL query API with more than 200 functions and support for aggregations, windowing, geospatial and JSON processing, and vector search.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Scaling and deployment
- Bigtable scales compute horizontally and supports instances spanning as many as eight regions, with automatic replication between clusters.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- The product page lists integrations with Apache Spark, Hadoop, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI Vector Search, BigQuery, and LangChain.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Migration
- Bigtable provides Apache Cassandra and HBase APIs and migration tools for HBase, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Aerospike.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Availability
- Google says multi-region instances offer 99.999% availability and protection against a regional failure.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Pricing model
- Pricing is based on compute capacity, database storage, backup storage, and network usage; the page says ingress, same-region egress, and same-region replication are free.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Workload fit
- Google says capacity-based low-latency compute can make Bigtable more favorable for larger workloads and less ideal for small applications.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Free trial
- New Google Cloud users can receive $300 in Welcome credit for 90 days to spend on covered products and services, including Bigtable when covered by the trial program.docs.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Trial eligibility
- Google says trial eligibility requires never having been a paying user of Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, or Firebase and not having previously signed up for the Free Trial.docs.cloud.google.com · 29 Sept 2026
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Where it ranks on Specifiction
- Best Database Software in 2026#21 of 74
- Best Key-Value Databases in 2026#4 of 32
- Best Wide-Column Databases in 2026#2 of 17
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Sources
- cloud.google.com/bigtable· checked 29 Sept 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features· checked 29 Sept 2026
- cloud.google.com/bigtable/pricing· checked 20 Sept 2026






