BigQuery vs Bigtable

Choosing the right cloud storage for your files is not always easy. In this article I discuss the benefits and drawbacks of two powerful tools: BigQuery and Bigtable. Both available on Google Cloud, the two data storage services have different uses.

In a nutshell, BigQuery is your go-to analytical powerhouse. It's ideal for structured data you wan to draw business insights from. It has an AI module BigQuery ML, which will be easy to use if you're a database engineer and you know how to code in SQL.

Bigtable is the heavy lifter for unstructured and semi-structured data that shines bright when you perform heavy read/write operations. It's optimized for large-scale file retrieval. It is a No-SQL database, so it's not well suited for analytics, though.

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