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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

by Sanket Thodge
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
282 pages
9h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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BigQuery

BigQuery is the data warehouse on Google Cloud Platform. It is cost-effective, fully managed, and works at scale.

When to use:

If you want to make your data work in a way to find some business insights, using SQL; also you do not need any database admin. While your data can be stored in cloud storage as an object or in Cloud SQL as a database, you can run your queries on the top of GCP using BigQuery.

Special features:

  • Serverless
  • Scale at Petabyte level
  • Standard SQL on batch or real-time data
  • Storage and Compute are priced differently

Costing:

Storage and computing are charged differently.

Please refer to the following table for details about the costing of BigQuery Storage:

Item

Price

Storage

$0.02 per GB, per month ...

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