October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Although we are discussing BigQuery as big data, let's remind ourselves that it is also a storage service. There is no need to export older data to another storage platform. With BigQuery, we can enjoy the same inexpensive long-term storage as we would expect from services such as Cloud Storage. As long as we are not editing tables for 90 consecutive days, then our cost will drop by 50%, which would match the cost of the Cloud Storage Nearline class.
We now have some valuable information from our data. Putting our full services together, at a high level, our solution would now look like this:

Take a moment to review the preceding diagram. ...
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