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BigQuery at speed: new features help you tune your query execution for performance

BigQuery is a managed analytics service that provides advanced cloud data warehouse capabilities with a diverse set of features. One of BigQuery’s most significant differentiators is its distributed analytics engine, which transforms your SQL queries into complex execution plans, dispatching them onto our execution nodes to promptly provide insights into your data.

The Rise of Ad Hoc and Citizen Integrators

In the past few years, there has been a shift in the data industry, leading to the emergence of a new category of data citizens: the ‘ad hoc’ or ‘citizen’ integrators. With these new personas adding to the (already long) list of data workers having access to corporate information, companies are needing to re-think the way they approach their data security and data governance strategies.

Making data-intensive processing efficient and portable with Apache Beam

The appearance of Hadoop and its related ecosystem was like a Cambrian explosion of open source tools and frameworks to process big amounts of data. But companies who invested early in big data found some challenges. For example, they needed engineers with expert knowledge not only on distributed systems and data processing but also on Java and the related JVM-based languages and tools.

Countly Compliance Hub

GDPR is becoming the most crucial regulation through EU’s data privacy legislations. It brings data privacy and protection for EU citizens, and all companies worldwide processing EU citizen data is requested to obey the rules it brings. Countly has been in the forefront when it comes to security and privacy focusing product analytics and marketing platform. We give upmost importance to your data, and provide on-prem solutions to make sure data you generate is always yours. This video shows how Countly conforms to GPDR and possibly other regulations in the future (e.g ePrivacy) via its "Compliance Hub" plugin.