Why is BigQuery not a database?

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.

What is the difference between Big Data and BigQuery?

To summarise, the primary differences between Bigtable and BigQuery are as follows: Bigtable is a mutable data NoSQL database service that is best suited for OLTP use cases. On the other hand, BigQuery is an immutable SQL data warehouse suitable for OLAP applications like business intelligence and analytics.

Is BigQuery a data store?

BigQuery stores data in a columnar format known as Capacitor. As you may expect, each field of BigQuery table i.e. column is stored in a separate Capacitor file which enables BigQuery to achieve very high compression ratio and scan throughput.