And for Non-Googlers: BigQuery does support Parquet in the lake. If you don't need PQ compatibility this is an easy option. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/ex

And for Non-Googlers: BigQuery does support Parquet in the lake. If you don't need PQ compatibility this is an easy option. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/external-data-cloud-storage https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/external-data-cloud-storag... People dump data from the main OLTP to the "lake" or some OLAP database and call it data-warehouse vs. Internet-oriented companies like Google tend to focus more on querying the log and its aggregated data.