google cloud platform - BigTable to TensorFlow 2.x - Any connector?

Question

Is there a direct BigTable connector for TensorFlow 2.x ?

I haven't found any clear track of such package in the master branches of the Github repos tensorflow and tensorflow_io. Thanks !

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65864167/bigtable-to-tensorflow-2-x-any-connector

Answer 1

Support on Bigtable was started on tfio v0.5.0 but was removed on v0.13.0. Here's the note:

BigTable has been broken from the beginning, and was never maintained. In addition, there are lots of code duplication as it implment 6 datasets in C++ with very minimal difference. Due to the recent changes in TF upsteram API change, it gets harder and harder to even make it compile.

This PR removes BigTable from the code tree. The plan is to add BigTable in the future with right implementation, ideally utilize the better maintained google cloud C++ big table API: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/tree/master/google/cloud/bigtable

Check their commit log: https://github.com/tensorflow/io/commit/f08f7954631cd13b3ace059dbc05f0b71dcd857d