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BigQuery is faster than anything else I've seen.

Why switch to what everyone else is using then?

(See http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-bigquery.h... vs all other benchmarks for the same dataset Mark got)

Disclaimer: I'm Felipe Hoffa and I work for Google (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa). But you can try BigQuery in the next 5 minutes and check the speed claims :).



Thanks for the reply :) I'll have to play around with BigQuery and see for myself!

> BigQuery is faster than anything else I've seen. > Why switch to what everyone else is using then?

This really depends on how much faster. For a marginal drop in performance, many would think it's worthwhile to stick with an established format. That said, I'm willing to believe the performance delta for BigQuery is worth it :)




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