[Goranek]

You can always move to Hbase ... Google BigTable uses Hbase api.

[nemo44x]

Until the API's begin to diverge - which will happen.

[ddispaltro]

Right now it's a subset of HBase, but the basic operations are unlikely to change. HBase adheres pretty well to the BigTable paper.

You are intentionally forgoing things like coprocessors, and other advanced stuff listed here[1]

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/hbase-differences