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As someone who worked with Google from a customer perspective, they take pride in the fact that their big data (BigTable, BigQuery, DataFlow) is proprietary and

by itaysk 10y ago

As someone who worked with Google from a customer perspective, they take pride in the fact that their big data (BigTable, BigQuery, DataFlow) is proprietary and superior the their OSS alternatives (I believe they actually are). I am not saying that they should OSS it, if they build something so awesome that differentiate them, they should know how to monetize it. But at least don't come off with a post like this.

jpatokal 10y ago
Dataflow is the hosted version of Apache Beam, which is OSS. http://beam.incubator.apache.org/ http://beam.incubator.apache.org/ BigTable is compatible with Apache HBase API, so it's trivial to swap out. https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/bigtable-and-hbase https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/bigtable-and-hbase Even BigQuery now has a standard SQL interface, although it's still Beta: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/ https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/ Working at Google Cloud myself, I find the company philosophy to be to provide standard interfaces to superior implementations. This keeps us honest, because if the door to leave is open, then you have to actually want to stay. (Standard disclaimer: my opinion, not the company's.)