Chapter 19. BigQuery: highly scalable data warehouse
This chapter covers
- What is BigQuery?
- How does BigQuery work under the hood?
- Bulk loading and streaming data into BigQuery
- Querying data
- How pricing works
If you deal with a lot of data, you probably remember the frustration of sitting around for a few minutes (or hours, or days) waiting for a query to finish running. At some point, you may have looked at MapReduce (for example, Hadoop) to speed up some of the larger jobs and then been frustrated again when every little change meant you had to change your code, recompile, redeploy, and run the job again. This leads us to BigQuery.
19.1. What is BigQuery?
BigQuery is a relational-style cloud database that’s capable of querying enormous ...
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