BigQuery is probably the single most compelling reason to adopt the GCP right now. It is a data warehousing service that is really fast, really price-competitive, and incredibly easy to use. Unlike some other Google Cloud services, BigQuery is widely used and so has little unpredictability in its behavior. I like to joke that if you interact with a Google Cloud sales professional, no matter what your question, the answer that comes back is, just use BigQuery for that!
In this chapter, you will learn about the following:
- BigQuery as Google's fully managed petabyte scale serverless database
- Architecture of BigQuery
- Working with BigQuery using web console
- Working with BigQuery using CLI
BigQuery competes with proprietary data warehousing solutions such as Teradata, but has obvious and major advantages over them, notably that it is cloud-based, serverless, and supports...
