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What is BigQuery? - BigQuery Tutorial
From the course: Build a No-Code ETL Pipeline with Google BigQuery
What is BigQuery?
- [Presenter] It is remarkable how companies like Spotify or the New York Times handle petabytes of data daily to deliver content quickly and efficiently. To do this, they rely on powerful tools like BigQuery, a managed data warehouse in the cloud designed to efficiently analyze massive amounts of data. BigQuery is a tool that helps you work with really large amounts of data without worrying about setting up servers or complex infrastructure. Imagine you have huge tables with millions of rows, like tracking every click on a website or every sale in a store. BigQuery can look through all that information and give you answers in seconds. BigQuery is part of Google Cloud, which means that Google takes care of complex requirements like storage, security, and speed. You just ask the questions using simple commands, and BigQuery gives you the results, fast and hassle-free. But BigQuery is more than just a tool for searching through data. It also helps you bring in data from different…