Service APIs overview

Cloud Bigtable provides REST/HTTP and gRPC interfaces.

We strongly recommend that you use our Bigtable client libraries instead of writing your own. Our client libraries include many important features that can be challenging to implement correctly, such as authentication and retries.




You can use the .proto service definition for Bigtable to generate your own gRPC client library in any language that gRPC supports. Use these resources to generate a client library:



There are many different ways to access the REST interface for Bigtable. To create your own clients, use the following resources:

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