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The Life of BigTable's Read & Write Operations

Let's explore how BigTable handles its read and write operations.

Write request

Upon receiving a write request, a Tablet server performs the following set of steps:

  1. Checks that the request is well-formed.
  2. Checks that the sender is authorized to perform the mutation. This authorization is performed based on the Access Control Lists (ACLs) that are stored in a chubby file.
  3. If the above two conditions are met, the mutation is written to the commit-log in GFS that stores redo records. 4

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