I've never worked for Google, but I understand from reading that BigTable is a storage service that includes replication. Here's an interesting post about AppE

I've never worked for Google, but I understand from reading that BigTable is a storage service that includes replication. Here's an interesting post about AppEngine which I expect applies to gmail. gdocs etc... http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/migration-to-better-datastore.html http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/09/migration-to-bet...