Is BigQuery a relational database?

What kind of database is BigQuery?

BigQuery is a business intelligence/OLAP (online analytical processing) system. Bigtable is a NoSQL database service. BigQuery is more of a hybrid; it uses SQL dialects and is based on Google's internal column-based data processing technology, "Dremel.”

Is BigQuery relational or NoSQL?

BigQuery is a hybrid system that allows you to store data in columns, but it takes into the NoSQL world with additional features, like the record type, and the nested feature. Also you can have a 2Mbyte STRING column in which you can store raw document like a JSON document. See other data formats and limits that apply.

Is BigQuery a transactional database?

BigQuery is not a transactional database As you can see it takes 1.6 second to run such a simple query on a 88.2 KB table with 481 rows.

Is BigQuery a RDMS?

BigQuery: A Serverless, Distributed SQL Engine What if you could run SQL queries as in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) system, obtain efficient and distributed traversal through the entire dataset as in MapReduce, and not need to manage infrastructure?