Learning about BigQuery
BigQuery is a fully managed, completely serverless (no need to think about the underlying infrastructure), cost-effective, petabyte-scale enterprise data warehouse with built-in machine learning and BI analytics that works across clouds and sources and scales with your data. It is an important service for the transform (process, analyze) stage in the life cycle of your data.
An entire book can be dedicated to BigQuery and it still wouldn’t be sufficient to cover everything that BigQuery has to offer for your data and businesses in its fullest sense. We will take a look at the key features in the next section and try some of these hands-on in this chapter.
Features of BigQuery
In this section, I have tried to address the features that database practitioners and developers associate with the most:
- With BigQuery, you can unify structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data and perform queries on them together. This means you can also...
