Google Cloud Bigtable Python Samples

This directory contains samples for Google Cloud Bigtable. Google 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.

Setup

Authentication

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

Install Dependencies

1. Clone python-docs-samples and change directory to the sample directory you want to use.

   $ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git

2. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.

3. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

   $ virtualenv env
   $ source env/bin/activate

4. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Samples

Quickstart

To run this sample:

$ python main.py

usage: main.py [-h] [--table TABLE] project_id instance_id

positional arguments:
  project_id     Your Cloud Platform project ID.
  instance_id    ID of the Cloud Bigtable instance to connect to.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --table TABLE  Existing table used in the quickstart. (default: my-table)

The client library

This sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.