You are investigating long latencies in Cloud Bigtable query response times. Most queries finish in less than 20 ms, but the 99th percentile queries can take up to 400 ms. You examine a Key Visualizer heatmap and see two areas with bright colors indicating hotspots. What could be causing those hotspots?

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You are investigating long latencies in Cloud Bigtable query response times. Most queries finish in less than 20 ms, but the 99th percentile queries can take up to 400 ms. You examine a Key Visualizer heatmap and see two areas with bright colors indicating hotspots. What could be causing those hotspots?