Does Cloud Bigtable have a local development server like Cloud Datastore?

Question

If not, is there any document that list best practices to integration-test an application that uses Cloud Bigtable? Specifically the applications written in Java and Python.

Ref: https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/tools/devserver

Protamine

Answer 1

No document, but you might benefit from looking at how the client integration tests work.

Weapon

Thanks for the link @les. – Protamine

This recommendation is now out of date, given the recently-released Cloud Bigtable emulator. Please see my recently-added answer for details. – Marguritemargy

the URL is dead too – Shaeshaef

Answer 2

Google Cloud Bigtable team recently released an in-memory emulator that you can run locally as part of your development environment. You can use it for both interactive work as well as automated integration tests.

Marguritemargy