BigQuery for Data Science

One of the perks of using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is having BigQuery, Google's cloud hosted data warehouse solution at your disposal. BigQuery gives GCP users access to the key features of Dremel, Google's very own internal data warehouse solution. Under the hood Dremel stores data in columnar format and uses a tree architecture to parallelise queries across thousands of machines, with each query scanning the entire table. So, what is so great about that? With BigQuery you can run SQL queries on a table with billions of rows and get the results in seconds!