Databases in 2021: A Year in Review

Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review by throwDec21 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:48AM (#29734048)

I'm just surprised that in 2021 BigQuery isn't more popular. I thought it would be top 10 by now, I moved to GCP because of it but feel like I'm the only one.

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Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review by PhoenixReborn on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:06AM (#29737841)

Because BQ is great for the ETL/data warehouse/BI use case but is terrible for online applications. I tried using BQ as the backing store for an online analytics application back in late 2019, and it was so much worse than using Clickhouse/Druid/Pinot for the same use case. IDK how much that has changed since, but I'm not too terribly surprised that it isn't higher.

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Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review by jbergens on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:20PM (#29742767)

I'm not on GCP but the one I would like to try is Spanner or Cloud Spanner.

I think more scalable systems will continue to gain market share. It will be interesting to see if PlanetScale, CockroachDb or some other actually becomes a big player.

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Re:Databases in 2021: A Year in Review by RedShift1 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:44AM (#29736255)

Bigquery seems like a tool for very large but static datasets. I also had a hard time figuring out the pricing so other than some test queries I moved on to other solutions.

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