very nice analysis... I've written on this topic the other week: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding-bigquerys-rapid-scaling-and-simpl

very nice analysis... I've written on this topic the other week: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding-bigquerys-rapid-scaling-and-simple-pricing https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding... Basically, in VM terms BigQuery lets you scale to thousands of cores in seconds, for just a few seconds, and you get per-second billing. Pretty cost-efficient :)