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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #116
What is the general recommendation when designing your row keys for a Cloud Bigtable schema?
The correct answer is C. Keep your row key reasonably short. Explanation/Reference: A general guide is to, keep your row keys reasonably short. Long row keys take up additional memory and storage and increase the time it takes to get responses from the Cloud Bigtable server.
Submitted by salim_om· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems
Question
What is the general recommendation when designing your row keys for a Cloud Bigtable schema?
Options
- AInclude multiple time series values within the row key
- BKeep the row keep as an 8 bit integer
- CKeep your row key reasonably short
- DKeep your row key as long as the field permits
How the community answered
(21 responses)- A10% (2)
- B5% (1)
- C81% (17)
- D5% (1)
Explanation
Explanation/Reference: A general guide is to, keep your row keys reasonably short. Long row keys take up additional memory and storage and increase the time it takes to get responses from the Cloud Bigtable server.
Topics
#Bigtable row key design#schema design#performance optimization
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