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 a Cluster <google.cloud.bigtable.instance.Instance
• a Cluster <google.cloud.bigtable.instance.Instance owns a Table
• a Table owns a ColumnFamily
• a Table owns a Row (and all the cells in the row)