January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Google BigQuery is similar to Amazon Redshift, in that it is also a large-scale data warehouse system that is fully cloud-based. However, while Redshift requires separate provisioning (of an AWS cluster and Redshift resources), Google BigQuery is the plug-and-play equivalent of the same. To use BigQuery, the user simply needs to create an account at https://bigquery.cloud.google.com and begin running queries after loading their datasets.
The charging method of BigQuery is also quite different in comparison to Redshift. Users can query a cumulative of 1 terabyte of data at no charge per month. BigQuery uses a pay-per-use model whereby queries have allocated costs. In essence, BigQuery abstracts the ...
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