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Yeah BQ is basically magic, it's so impressive how much data is can process in 30 secs or less. (I know under-the-hood it consists of some very impressive algo
by matthewwarren 9y ago
Yeah BQ is basically magic, it's so impressive how much data is can process in 30 secs or less.
(I know under-the-hood it consists of some very impressive algorithms/hardware/programming etc, as explained in https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-query-execution-in-google-bigquery https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-que..., but it feels like magic!)
- isp 9y agoSome good reading on BigQuery: https://medium.com/@thetinot/bigquery-required-reading-list-71945444477b https://medium.com/@thetinot/bigquery-required-reading-list-...
- matthewwarren 9y agoThanks for that list, I've seen a few of those, but quite a lot of new ones in there, reading my way through them now!
- isp 9y agoI'm glad it was helpful. I found this list (a very helpful list, with good posts!) during $DAY_JOB. Following your comment, I've shared this more widely here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464921
- jimktrains2 9y agoAnd has excellent sql support, even before standard sql support was a thing.
- sAbakumoff 9y agoexactly. I also performed several researches back in days like this https://medium.com/@sAbakumoff/github-cancer-180db780d99d https://medium.com/@sAbakumoff/github-cancer-180db780d99d