Is Google BigQuery a database?

What type of database is Google BigQuery?

BigQuery stores data using a columnar storage format that is optimized for analytical queries. BigQuery presents data in tables, rows, and columns and provides full support for database transaction semantics (ACID). BigQuery storage is automatically replicated across multiple locations to provide high availability.

Is BigQuery a database or data warehouse?

Google BigQuery is a cloud-based enterprise data warehouse that offers rapid SQL queries and interactive analysis of massive datasets. BigQuery was designed on Google's Dremel technology and is built to process read-only data.

What is the database behind BigQuery?

BigQuery is part of Google Cloud Platform, and integrates with other GCP services and tools. BigQuery can process data stored in other GCP products, including Cloud Storage, the Cloud SQL relational database service, the Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database, Google Drive, and Spanner, Google's distributed database.

Is BigQuery in memory database?

BigQuery is a fast petabyte-scale analytics database. To achieve that level of performance, BigQuery executes queries completely in memory. Most databases and data processing systems achieve scalability using hybrid executors that operate on both disk and memory.