Query Bigness - Super Big Querys require a BigQuery

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/anatomy-of-a-bigquery-query https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-under-the-hood https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capacitor-bigquerys-next-generation-columnar-storage-format

History

BigQuery was publicaly announced in 2010.

Query Execution

Dremel is the execution engine of BigQuery.

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html

Storage

Collossus

https://cloud.google.com/files/storage_architecture_and_challenges.pdf

Capacitor

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capacitor-bigquerys-next-generation-columnar-storage-format#closeImage

Open-source

Apache Drill

Apache Drill is an open-source implementation of Dremel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Drill