Using the API#
API requests are sent to the Google Cloud Bigtable API via RPC over HTTP/2. In order to support this, we’ll rely on gRPC. We are working with the gRPC team to rapidly make the install story more user-friendly.
Get started by learning about the
Client
on the
Base for Everything page.
In the hierarchy of API concepts
- a
Client
owns aCluster <google.cloud.bigtable.instance.Instance
- a
Cluster <google.cloud.bigtable.instance.Instance
owns aTable
- a
Table
owns aColumnFamily
- a
Table
owns aRow
(and all the cells in the row)