BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable and a few other Google technologies. It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine.

Big Table development began in 2004 and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as web indexing , MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in BigTable,Google Reader,Google Maps,Google Book Search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, Orkut,YouTube, and Gmail. Google's reasons for developing its own database include scalability and better control of performance characteristics.

BigTable maps two arbitrary string values (row key and column key) and timestamp (hence three dimensional mapping) into an associated arbitrary byte array. It is not a relational database and can be better defined as a sparse, distributed multi-dimensional sorted map. BigTable is designed to scale into the petabyte range across "hundreds or thousands of machines, and to make it easy to add more machines [to] the system and automatically start taking advantage of those resources without any reconfiguration".

Irwin Allen Ginsberg ( /ˈɡɪnzbərɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression. Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he celebrated his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and harshly denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. This poem is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation. The poem, which was dedicated to writer Carl Solomon, opens:

madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn

In October 1955, Ginsberg and five other unknown poets gave a free reading at an experimental art gallery in San Francisco. Ginsberg's "Howl" electrified the audience. According to fellow poet Michael McClure, it was clear "that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power support bases." In 1957, "Howl" attracted widespread publicity when it became the subject of an obscenity trial in which a San Francisco prosecutor argued it contained "filthy, vulgar, obscene, and disgusting language." The poem seemed especially outrageous in 1950s America because it depicted both heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every U.S. state. "Howl" reflected Ginsberg's own homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, adding, "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"

Martin Neil Butler (born 15 September 1974 in Dudley, West Midlands) is a former English footballer who played as a striker between 1993 and 2009. Butler notably played for Walsall, Cambridge United and Reading. He also had spells with Rotherham United, Grimsby Town, Burton Albion and Worcester City.

Butler spent most of his youth in Bridgnorth, Shropshire,^{[citation needed]} attending Castlefields Primary School^{[citation needed]} and Oldbury Wells School.^{[citation needed]}Butler started his career at Walsall, where he rose through the youth ranks. Following rave reviews,^{[citation needed]} he made his senior debut in the 1993-94 season.

However, his career at Walsall faltered, and he was allowed to join Cambridge United for £22,500 in the summer of 1997. A prolific spell at the Abbey Stadium prompted Reading to pay around the £750k mark for his services in February 2000

Butler continued his fine goal-scoring form - including a goal in the 2000-01 Football League Second Division Playoff Final in May 2001, although Reading went on to lose the match 3-2 to Butler's old team Walsall. On 6 November 2001, Butler was stretchered off during Reading's 2-0 win over Wrexham, suffering serious damage to his ankle. He broke his ankle and fibula, and suffered ligament damage competing for a ball on the touchline after his foot stuck in the ground. He did not play again until April 2002, but his goals that season still helped Reading to get promoted to the First Division in second place.