Bigtable database design theory

Question

I am very well versed in the theory and practice of relational database design.

I know what works and what doesn\'t, what is performant and what is maintainable (almost

Answer 1

The search term is column oriented databases/datastores

Wikipedia

In the beginning there was a discussion on how to build databases. Row oriented won.

However column oriented is in a "revival" phase. It's best for big read-only, distributed scenarios.

There is much theory to find when you search for column oriented databases/stores.