Techcrunch reported that Google, the original research and development behind BigTable, MapReduce and other great cloud technology base architectures, is probably going to launch their own BigTable database in the cloud for developers like Amazon’s SimpleDB.

Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven’t been contacted by Google.

BigTable is a highly scalable database system used internally by Google to support over 60 of its products and projects. A source says Google has plans to announce next week that it will make BigTable available to outside developers as a service. Amazon provides a similar service through SimpleDB, a cloud database solution announced in December.

Techcrunch seems to think this will be released next week, with other services to follow up. This is the future, Amazon is well ahead but the power of Google is in the wings waiting. Also, Microsoft might show up with CloudDB or the next version of sql server having this capability. Service and pricing will determine the winner as cloud computing and storage is fairly new and very simple (usually the db is almost an active record like system where is it just flat tables and not alot of relational data).

The future of your software initiatives just might not need an entire infrastructure and IT management team…

The services and cloud web are changing software rapidly.