Editor’s note: Here, we look at how Equifax used Google Cloud’s Bigtable as a foundational tool to reinvent themselves through technology. Identifying stolen identities, evaluating credit scores, verifying employment and income for processing credit requests requires data—truckloads of data—galaxies of data! But it’s not enough…

If you’re trying to learn a new database, you’ll want to kick the tires by loading in some data and maybe doing a query or two. Cloud Bigtable is a powerful database service for scale and throughput, and it is quite flexible in how you…