Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data, Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber, 20067th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06) (USENIX Association) - 描述了Google的Bigtable,该系统启发了许多列族数据库,例如HBase。