BigQuery
Google Cloud's serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse — widely adopted for analytics workloads and increasingly paired with dbt and Looker.
BigQuery is Google Cloud's fully managed, serverless data warehouse that can query terabytes in seconds without provisioning or managing infrastructure. It uses a columnar storage format and separates compute from storage, billing per query. BigQuery is widely used for analytics at companies on GCP and is a common pairing with dbt for transformation and Looker for visualization. Its ML capabilities (BigQuery ML) allow training models directly in SQL.
Typical time to job-readiness: ~3 weeks.