Scaling to Build the Consolidated Audit T rail: A Financial Services Application of Google Cloud Bigtable 1 1.1 Introduction Google Cloud Bigtable 1 is the latest formerly-internal Google technology to be opened to the public through Google Cloud Platform [1] [2]. We undertook an analysis of the capabilities of Google Cloud Bigtable, specifically t o see if Bigtable would fit int o a proof-of-concept system for the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) [3]. In this whitepaper, we provide some context, explain the experiments we ran on Bigtable, and share the results of our experiments. 1.2 The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) FIS (that completed its purchase of SunGard on N ovember 30, 2015) is a bidder to build CAT [5], an SEC-mandated data repository that will hold every event th

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