Google BigQuery

Google Cloud's serverless data warehouse: load data, write SQL, pay for what you scan. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Google
Created by
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First release
2011
License
Proprietary
Open source
No
Pricing
Paid
Website
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery
Written in
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Data model
Relational
Storage layout
Column-oriented
Workload
Analytics (OLAP)
Analytics architecture
Data warehouse
Query language
GoogleSQL
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Managed cloud
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Batch loads and streaming inserts); Read: fast (Huge scans in seconds); Update: moderate (DML rewrites storage, with quotas); Delete: moderate (DML rewrites storage, with quotas)

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