Google's BigQuery Vs. Hadoop: a Matchup 37
Nerval's Lobster writes "Ready to 'Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button?' That's the claim Google makes with its BigQuery platform. But is BigQuery really an analytics superstar? It was unveiled in Beta back in 2010, but recently gained some improvements such as the ability to do large joins. In the following piece, Jeff Cogswell compares BigQuery to some other analytics and OLAP tools, and hopefully that'll give some additional context to anyone who's thinking of using BigQuery or a similar platform for data. His conclusion? In the end, BigQuery is just another database. It can handle massive amounts of data, but so can Hadoop. It's not free, but neither is Hadoop once you factor in the cost of the hardware, support, and the paychecks of the people running it. The public version of BigQuery probably isn't even used by Google, which likely has something bigger and better that we'll see in five years or so."
Hadoop is much better and stable (Score:1, Interesting)
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Big whoosh on that one! His entire post was obviously sarcasm, and was pointing out the GP post was a typical anti-Google article troll...
Re:Hadoop is much better and stable (Score:4, Insightful)
You understand that that number is flawed, right? He only figures in the average lives of products that Google has killed. It's kind of like looking at all the people who died of heart attacks, finding out they lived to an average of 48 years old, and then telling the general population that, on average, they're going to die of a heart attack when they're 48 years old.
But please, jump on the anti-google circle jerk. It seems to be the thing to do at the moment.
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I just turned 48, you insensitive clod!
Pathetic summary (Score:5, Insightful)
"The public version of BigQuery probably isn't even used by Google, which likely has something bigger and better that we'll see in five years or so"
With in-depth analysis like that who needs the full article.........
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With in-depth analysis like that who needs the full article.........
Right. This is just a troll for a short blog posting. There are no benchmarks or examples at all. This looks like "sponsored content".
click of a button? (Score:2)
That's so 2008. Wake me up when I can process terabytes of data with the sound of my voice, the wave of my hand, or the wave pattern of my brain. ;P
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meh.
the triggering of my cron job.
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What, you think the big telecoms are more benevolent? With the big telecoms they honestly don't care how good their service is most of the time. They'll bill you either way, and your other option(s) are either non-existent or more of the same with a different name.
If Google's model is making me the product, at least they have an investment in keeping their service up. I can't view their ads if I'm offline. Plus competition is going to drive relative costs down and service up. If they can monetize the fact t
What are you even talking about? (Score:2)
[I]nstead of a dialog, this post got a -1.
You're talking about politics and conspiracy theories in an article about big data. Yes, that is off topic.
Why does the Internet always have to be about "monetization"? I'd like to see open, standards-compliant offerings that are truly "free" as in freedom and very low cost...
You're living in a dreamland. Like it or not, electricity, hardware, and wires cost money.
I'm hoping Firefox OS proves to be one of these. Let's hope as a non-profit...
FYI, Mozilla Foundation is funded, in large part, by Google.
Look at OpenBSD, for example. Not much better in terms of a secure server environment.
And it has scant adoption. Meanwhile, the rest of us are charging ahead and getting stuff done with steadily advancing tools rather than messing around with arcane operating systems that have 10-year-old feature sets.
Splunk (Score:1)
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What are some of the cost/performance metrics of Splunk when data gets large (common for game developers).
How does Splunk do on data sizes in the 500 Gig range? And how much does it cost?
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Bad analogy fail. Google doesn't create the ads, they serve them. Calling them an ad agency would be like calling TV networks ad agencies.
Not that it matters. The fact is Google runs the largest "cloud" computing network in the world. Of course, that doesn't necessarily make them the best platform for other businesses. But given Hadoop is based on Google's MapReduce and GFS designs, they clearly have expertise in the field, and to pretend otherwise is a complete and utter troll.
Article contains plenty of misleading comments (Score:5, Insightful)
First of all, this article isn't a comparison or matchup - it's just a speculative post by someone who has done very little research and obviously lacks domain knowledge in the space. There is no mention of use cases, data sizes, performance, costs.
Hadoop is an open-source framework for distributed data processing, specifically an implementation of the MapReduce framework. BigQuery is a hosted service that allows you to run queries over massive datasets via an API. There are tools built on top of Hadoop that allow for fast querying over large datasets (Impala), and there are even tools that are not Hadoop based that provide this as well (Spark + Shark). However, actually using these tools is a whole different game - the author makes so mention of how many nodes/VM are required to compare the query performance of BigQuery.
Then there's data sizes. The author makes a strange claim that BigQuery "queries don’t run instantly; one of the samples took 3.3 seconds to grind through 3.49 Gigabytes of data. But that’s clearly fine for quick lookups." Huhn? What tool(s) are you comparing against? BigQuery allows users to run full table aggregate ad-hoc queries over really really big datasets (i.e. terabytes). In public talks, Google has demonstrated that it is possible to run regular expression match queries, with sums and aggregations, over several terabytes of data in under a minute. In order to do this with a MapReduce-based system, what needs to be done - perhaps use something like Hive, or write a custom MapReduce function - and what is the performance in this case? For the same use case, what is the cost of using some of the "OLAP" tools that the author describes? Would love to see some benchmarks.
Re: "In the end, BigQuery is just another database."
Huhn? BigQuery is not a database at all - it doesn't support CRUD operations on data - rather it is an append-only analytics tool. And conversely, databases, relational or not, aren't really the right tools for full table scan ad-hoc queries over many terabytes, which is what BigQuery is designed to do. BigQuery is a developer's product, and one that can be integrated with existing web apps via RESTful API. Hadoop has it's own development role and story (and tools like Cascading are really great) but it's not designed as the backend for interaction via a RESTful API out of the box - it takes a bit more work to provide Hadoop as a service for developers to integrate with an application.
Re: "The public version of BigQuery probably isn't even used by Google, which likely has something bigger and better that we'll see in five years or so."
BigQuery is based on Google's internal Dremel, which is used everyday by Google. There is a very public research paper describing Dremel (much the same as how Google described MapReduce years ago). Read about what is available in Dremel versus what is available in BigQuery: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html [google.com]
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This comment contains more information than the article. :)
Thanks
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Courtesy Devops_Borat (Score:1)