google-cloud-bigtable

Google Cloud Bigtable Client for Java

Java idiomatic client for Cloud Bigtable. Please note that this client is under heavy development and is not ready for production use. Please continue to use the HBase API client for production.

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Note: This client is under heavy development and should not be used in production.

Quickstart

If you are using Maven, add this to your pom.xml file

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
  <version>0.94.0-alpha</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies

compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable:0.94.0-alpha'

If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-bigtable" % "0.94.0-alpha"

Authentication

See the Authentication section in the base directory's README.

About Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Bigtable is Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Be sure to activate the Cloud Bigtable API and the Cloud Bigtable Admin API on the Developer's Console to use Cloud Bigtable from your project.

See the Bigtable client lib docs to learn how to interact with Cloud Bigtable using this Client Library.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

For this tutorial, you will need a Google Developers Console project with the Cloud Bigtable API enabled. You will need to enable billing to use Google Cloud Bigtable. Follow these instructions to get your project set up. You will also need to set up the local development environment by installing the Google Cloud SDK and running the following commands in command line: gcloud auth login.

Calling Cloud Bigtable

The Cloud Bigtable API is split into 3 parts: Data API, Instance Admin API and Table Admin API.

Here is a code snippet showing simple usage of the Data API. Add the following imports at the top of your file:

import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataClient;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Query;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row;

Then, to make a query to Bigtable, use the following code:

// Instantiates a client
String projectId = "my-instance";
String instanceId = "my-database";
String tableId = "my-table";

// Create the client
BigtableDataClient dataClient = BigtableDataClient.create(projectId, instanceId);

try {
  // Query a table
  Query query = Query.create(tableId)
      .range("a", "z")
      .limit(26);

  for (Row row : dataClient.readRows(query)) {
    System.out.println(row.getKey());
  }
} finally {
  dataClient.close();
}

The Admin APIs are similar. Here is a code snippet showing how to create a table. Add the following imports at the top of your file:

import static com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.GCRules.GCRULES;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminClient;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.CreateTableRequest;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.models.Table;

Then, to create a table, use the following code:

String projectId = "my-instance";
String instanceId = "my-database";

BigtableTableAdminClient tableAdminClient = BigtableTableAdminClient
  .create(projectId, instanceId);

try {
  tableAdminClient.createTable(
      CreateTableRequest.of("my-table")
        .addFamily("my-family")
  );
} finally {
  tableAdminClient.close();
}

Opencensus Tracing

Cloud Bigtable client supports Opencensus Tracing, which gives insight into the client internals and aids in debugging production issues. By default, the functionality is disabled. To enable, you need to add a couple of dependencies and configure an exporter. For example to enable tracing using Google Stackdriver:

If you are using Maven, add this to your pom.xml file

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
  <artifactId>opencensus-impl</artifactId>
  <version>0.18.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
  <artifactId>opencensus-exporter-trace-stackdriver</artifactId>
  <version>0.18.0</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies

compile 'io.opencensus:opencensus-impl:0.18.0'
compile 'io.opencensus:opencensus-exporter-trace-stackdriver:0.18.0'

If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies

libraryDependencies += "io.opencensus" % "opencensus-impl" % "0.18.0"
libraryDependencies += "io.opencensus" % "opencensus-exporter-trace-stackdriver" % "0.18.0"

Then at the start of your application configure the exporter:

import io.opencensus.exporter.trace.stackdriver.StackdriverTraceConfiguration;
import io.opencensus.exporter.trace.stackdriver.StackdriverTraceExporter;

StackdriverTraceExporter.createAndRegister(
  StackdriverTraceConfiguration.builder()
      .setProjectId("YOUR-PROJECT_ID")
      .build());

By default traces are sampled at a rate of about 1/10,000. You can configure a higher rate by updating the active tracing params:

import io.opencensus.trace.Tracing;
import io.opencensus.trace.samplers.Samplers;

Tracing.getTraceConfig().updateActiveTraceParams(
    Tracing.getTraceConfig().getActiveTraceParams().toBuilder()
        .setSampler(Samplers.probabilitySampler(0.01))
        .build()
);

Troubleshooting

To get help, follow the instructions in the shared Troubleshooting document.

Transport

Bigtable uses gRPC for the transport layer.

Java Versions

Java 7 or above is required for using this client.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

It is currently in major version zero (0.y.z), which means that anything may change at any time and the public API should not be considered stable.

Contributing

Contributions to this library are always welcome and highly encouraged.

See CONTRIBUTING for more information on how to get started and DEVELOPING for a layout of the codebase.

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.