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Migrate to Bigtable
You can migrate your data to Bigtable from a number of database
services. To understand the workloads that are best suited for
Bigtable, see the
Bigtable overview. The guides listed on
this page can help you plan and achieve your migration.
Migrate from HBase
When you migrate from an HBase installation to Bigtable, you
can use Google-provided open source migration and validation tools.
Replicate from HBase to
Bigtable: Complete an
online migration with almost no downtime using the Bigtable
HBase replication library.
Migrating from Cassandra: Use
open-source tooling to migrate from Apache Cassandra and interact with
Bigtable using Cassandra Query Language (CQL) syntax.
If you are considering a migration from DynamoDB to Bigtable, read
the following guide for a discussion of similarities and differences between the
two.
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