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Sireesha Pulipati
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Sireesha Pulipati

Sireesha Pulipati is an experienced data analytics and data management professional. She has spent the last decade building and managing data platforms and solutions, and is passionate about enabling users to leverage data to solve business problems. Sireesha holds a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Her work history spans multiple industries – healthcare, media, travel & hospitality, high-tech, and more. She is currently at Google as an analytics lead, helping with analytics strategy to support Search Knowledge Graph. Outside of work, Sireesha enjoys hiking and reading books. She currently resides in the Bay Area.
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Introducing BigQuery

BigQuery is a highly scalable distributed cloud data warehouse from Google that is purpose-built for running analytics. It is fully managed by Google and serverless, allowing users to use the service without worrying about setting up and managing infrastructure.

BigQuery is optimized for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads that perform ad-hoc analysis over large data volumes. This is in contrast to relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, which are built for Online Transactional Processing (OLTP). OLTP systems are optimized for capturing, storing, and processing transactions in real time.

BigQuery is highly performant and can process terabytes of data in seconds and petabytes of data within a few minutes. This is possible due to the decoupling of the storage and compute in its architecture, which allows BigQuery to scale them independently on demand. BigQuery charges you separately for storage and processing. Storage pricing is based...

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Published in: Oct 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568761

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Sireesha Pulipati

Sireesha Pulipati is an experienced data analytics and data management professional. She has spent the last decade building and managing data platforms and solutions, and is passionate about enabling users to leverage data to solve business problems. Sireesha holds a master's degree in Business Administration and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Her work history spans multiple industries – healthcare, media, travel & hospitality, high-tech, and more. She is currently at Google as an analytics lead, helping with analytics strategy to support Search Knowledge Graph. Outside of work, Sireesha enjoys hiking and reading books. She currently resides in the Bay Area.
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