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Google BigQuery Is Now Even Bigger
vu1986 writes "With the latest updates — announced in a blog post by BigQuery Product Manager Ku-kay Kwek on Thursday — users can now join large tables, import and query timestamped data, and aggregate large collections of distinct values. It's hardly the equivalent of Google launching Compute Engine last summer, but as (arguably) the inspiration for the SQL-on-Hadoop trend that's sweeping the big data world right now, every improvement to BigQuery is notable."
You'd be some idiot to build a business on the back of a service that might disappear. At least with the IaaS providers you have some hope of being able to recover should the service provider decide they no longer want to support their service, because you can shift your application to new infrastructure. If you're tied into the Google world-view, you're only a short blogpost away from seeing your business threatened.
you understand no one forces you to buy Oracle right?
No, but imagine the shock to Java developers when, after so many years of benevolent stewardship of Java by Sun, we were dragged kicking and screaming into Larry's world.
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I totally agree with hmmm, building a business on a service that might (and in time deffinitly) disappear is crazy. This is for every remote service. I have the same problem for a business of mine (CloudFormz). I would like to add the DropBox API for example so all file uploads are uploaded to DropBox. But what if the api stops working or even worse, DropBox stops it service? Then you get a lot of angry customers and you have no way to retrieve your data. (sorry for my English grammar). Do you have any failsafe ideas?
Oh come on now, ever since Oracle took over MariaDB and LibreOffice have been flourishing.
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"users can now join large tables, import and query timestamped data, and aggregate large collections of distinct values."
Wow. It's like 1986 all over again. Gonna turf my enterprise SQL back-end and get me some o' that!
It's not Oracle MySQL, primarily. And it's operated by Monty Widenius, the founder and main author of the original MySQL. But mainly it's taking off because it's not Oracle.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
No,you don't have it straight.
BigQuery isn't sold as a replacement for traditional SQL databases, or as "the be all and end all of IT services and methodologies" (or even "...all database-like services and methodologies", as Google also has several other cloud database services for different uses, most notably the MySQL-based CloudSQL), its a data analysis platform for large data sets that uses an SQL-like query syntax.
As a large data set analysis platform, its optimized for that use case, including the focus on large primary tables possibly joined with small auxiliary tables,
people are not jumping ship on oracle MySQL as oracle has not upset the boat to much yet. There are starting to be cracks in that though so when they get around to "monetizing" MySQL people will leave in droves. Some early adopters of MariaDB or other databases seem to be anticipating this and to be honest based on oracle's track record it does not seem like a bad assumption. oracle would rather have complete and dominant control instead of making money.
"NoSQL" grew up into "SQL".
Table-ized A.I.