Separation of compute and storage has been around since before Google was even relevant as a company (see NFS). If you think bigquery pioneered all of these co

Separation of compute and storage has been around since before Google was even relevant as a company (see NFS). If you think bigquery pioneered all of these concepts then your team did a very poor job of researching prior art. Maybe that was intentional for a good green-field design, but it's certainly not pioneering at that point.