Recently Google went live with a cloud based big data crunching solution called BigQuery. It goes head to head with Hadoop and other cloud based deployments of Hadoop like Cloudera. Google is using a columnar data structure and claims far superior performance to on site Hadoop deployments when it comes to queries. Although, without replicating their cloud scale compute power, it would be hard to compare. Hadoop and others still have a place in big data even with BigQuery around as there are still scrubs and processing of the data to be done. Right now BigQuery is all about the query. The pricing isn’t bad though if you have a project to try it out on. I’d be interested to hear what you think if you give it a try.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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