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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #265
Your company has an application running on Google Cloud that is collecting data from thousands of physical devices that are globally distributed. Data is published to Pub/Sub and streamed in real…
The correct answer is C. Review your RowKey strategy and ensure that keys are evenly spread across the alphabet. https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/schema-design#row-keys
Submitted by haruto_sh· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes
Question
Your company has an application running on Google Cloud that is collecting data from thousands of physical devices that are globally distributed. Data is published to Pub/Sub and streamed in real time into an SSD Cloud Bigtable cluster via a Dataflow pipeline. The operations team informs you that your Cloud Bigtable cluster has a hotspot, and queries are taking longer than expected. You need to resolve the problem and prevent it from happening in the future. What should you do?
Options
- AAdvise your clients to use HBase APIs instead of NodeJS APIs.
- BDelete records older than 30 days.
- CReview your RowKey strategy and ensure that keys are evenly spread across the alphabet.
- DDouble the number of nodes you currently have.
How the community answered
(55 responses)- A2% (1)
- B9% (5)
- C84% (46)
- D5% (3)
Explanation
https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/schema-design#row-keys
Topics
#Cloud Bigtable#hotspot#RowKey design#performance optimization
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