Cloud Bigtable: Node.js Client

Node.js idiomatic client for 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.

• Cloud Bigtable Node.js Client API Reference
• github.com/googleapis/nodejs-bigtable
• Cloud Bigtable Documentation

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

• Quickstart
  • Before you begin
  • Installing the client library
  • Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Quickstart

Before you begin

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

   Go to the projects page

2. Enable billing for your project.

   Enable billing

3. Enable the Cloud Bigtable API.

   Enable the API

4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install --save @google-cloud/bigtable

Using the client library

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const Bigtable = require('@google-cloud/bigtable');

// Creates a client
const bigtable = new Bigtable();

// The name for the new instance
const instanceName = 'my-new-instance';

// Creates the new instance
bigtable
  .createInstance(instanceName, {
    clusters: [
      {
        name: 'my-cluster',
        location: 'us-central1-c',
        nodes: 3,
      },
    ],
  })
  .then(() => {
    console.log(`Instance ${instanceName} created.`);
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.log('ERROR:', err);
  });

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Instances	source code

The Cloud Bigtable Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in alpha. This means it is still a work-in-progress and under active development. Any release is subject to backwards-incompatible changes at any time.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE