> First version of what later became BigQuery was built in a few months by a much smaller team, because it was targeted at a much more specialized use case: que

> First version of what later became BigQuery was built in a few months by a much smaller team, because it was targeted at a much more specialized use case: querying structured application logs in (almost) realtime. Is there more about this story that you could link me to? Or would reading the whitepaper provide most of the interesting detail of how a log query engine became a general-purpose query product?