Great to hear from a happy customer! Some more color commentary: - Quotas can be a little annoying indeed, but they're generally there for a reason. Over time

Great to hear from a happy customer! Some more color commentary: - Quotas can be a little annoying indeed, but they're generally there for a reason. Over time, we've moved BigQuery in direction of having less and less quotas in general - BigQuery recently released ODBC and JDBC drivers, as well as Standard SQL support. so you can plug in your favorite desktop client - On predictability of pricing, there are several flavors of proactive controls - cost per query, cost per user, cost per group, etc. There are reactive billing alerts as well. And as you get to Petabyte scale, there's a flat rate pricing model. (work on GCP)