BigQuery: An interactive analytics benchmark
By Andrew Fisher
| Jul 28, 2021
| bigquery, dataengineering
If you have operational data sitting in BigQuery that powers dashboards through tools like Tableau, Looker, or Apache Superset, putting an exploratory analytics tool on top of your BigQuery datasets can enable business and technical users to interact with the data in an interactive, exploratory fashion, and performance is surprisingly good. Using a standard dataset of varying sizes, an automated test suite ran over the data simulating “slice and dice” with concurrent users and performance of BigQuery was measured.