What DBMS does BigQuery use?

Which database is used by 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.

Does BigQuery use SQL or MySQL?

Introduction to Google BigQuery Google BigQuery supports ANSI SQL, allowing users to run SQL queries on massive datasets to manage business transactions, perform data analytics, and do a variety of other things.

What type of SQL does BigQuery use?

BigQuery supports the Google Standard SQL dialect, but a legacy SQL dialect is also available. If you are new to BigQuery, you should use Google Standard SQL as it supports the broadest range of functionality. For example, features such as DDL and DML statements are only supported using Google Standard SQL.

Is BigQuery an Rdbms?

Having said that, both Redshift and BigQuery have their foundation in column based databases. Redshift is based on Paraccel which is classic column based RDBMS targeted towards data warehousing, and BigQuery is based on internal Google's column based data processing technology called "dremel".