Effectively Use "cbt" command to get Google Cloud BigTable Data
Google Cloud BigTable is a NO-SQL time series storage. Unlike SQL or my SQL, it doesn't have a standard user interface to see data (as of 2020 Nov). Instead, it provides a command-line tool. Thus this blog will describe how to effectively query Google Cloud BigTable instance , to view and filter rows using the cbt command-line tool. This blog expects you to have a fair understanding of: Google Cloud BigTable Row keys, columns, column qualifier in BigTable Proper access rights to query BigTable Cloud BigTable Command line tool (cbt) provided by Google helps you perform various actions on your BigTable instance. The most common purpose I have been using it is for reading rows from my BigTable instance. 'cbt' command-line tool provides you the following reading options 1. Read: Read rows between the range of keys. cbt -instance <BIGTABLE_INSTANCE_ID> -project <GCP_PROJECT_ID> read <TABLE_NAME> start=<ROW_KEY_1> end=<ROW_KEY_2> 2. Read from: S...