Python Client for Google Cloud Bigtable
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    Python idiomatic client for `Google Cloud Bigtable`_

.. _Google Cloud Bigtable: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/

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-  `Documentation`_

.. _Documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/latest/bigtable/usage.html

Quick Start
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.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigtable

For more information on setting up your Python development environment,
such as installing ``pip`` and ``virtualenv`` on your system, please refer
to `Python Development Environment Setup Guide`_ for Google Cloud Platform.

.. _Python Development Environment Setup Guide: https://cloud.google.com/python/setup

Authentication
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With ``google-cloud-python`` we try to make authentication as painless as
possible. Check out the `Authentication section`_ in our documentation to
learn more. You may also find the `authentication document`_ shared by all
the ``google-cloud-*`` libraries to be helpful.

.. _Authentication section: https://google-cloud-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/core/auth.html
.. _authentication document: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-common/tree/master/authentication

Using the API
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Cloud `Bigtable`_  is Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same
database that powers many core Google services, including Search,
Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

.. _Bigtable: https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/

See the ``google-cloud-python`` API Bigtable `Documentation`_ to learn
how to manage your data in Bigtable tables.

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