What do data engineers say are the biggest downsides of using Google Cloud BigQuery for massive datasets?
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What do data engineers say are the biggest downsides of using Google Cloud BigQuery for massive datasets?
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
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Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
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Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
data engineers biggest downsides Google BigQuery massive datasets cost performance limitations Reddit Google ↗
BigQuery pain points large scale datasets data engineers partitioning clustering concurrency cost Reddit Google ↗
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Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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data engineers biggest downsides Google BigQuery massive datasets cost performance limitations Reddit OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
BigQuery pain points large scale datasets data engineers partitioning clustering concurrency cost Reddit OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |