Analytics tools have been big in the news so far this year, and the latest to make a newsworthy update is the Google BigQuery tool. Google announced this week that it’s cutting BigQuery’s cost by up to 85 percent and adding a greater capacity for analyzing data. Where it was once able to run through 1,000 rows of data in near real time, it will now be able to process 100,000 rows per second for just $5 a terabyte. The change will make it a major competitor for other analytics tools such as Amazon Kinesis.
This week’s news roundup brings you the big news about Google BigQuery along with expert analysis on what it means for the analytics tools market.
- Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics at TechCrunch: “BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service offered by Amazon Kinesis and others.”
- Google Revamps Enterprise Cloud Services with Price Cuts, More Features at Itworld: “The company has made sizable price cuts across its storage, compute and BigQuery analysis services. It has also introduced a number of new services, including managed virtual machines, an extension of BigQuery for live data and the ability to run copies of the enterprise-ready Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux and Windows Server 2008 R2.”
- Google Attempts to Reinvent Its Cloud Platform, Lowers Pricing at Computer Technology Review: “Google also introduced initiatives to make development more productive. The building, testing and releasing in the cloud, with minimal setup or changes to workflow, while committing a change with git and run a clean build and all unit tests. It also features aggregated logs across all instances, with filtering and search tools, detailed stack traces for bugs, with one-click access to the exact version of the code that caused the issue, and can make small code changes right in the browser.”
- Google’s Bigger, Cheaper Cloud at The New York Times: “Google’s cloud computing business has figured out how it’s going to come at Amazon Web Services: lower and simpler prices, predictable services and software innovation. Some of the price cuts are as much as 85 percent. Amazon is expected to soon respond with moves of its own.”
- Google Cuts ‘Cloud’ Pricing to Compete with Amazon at The Wall Street Journal: “Amazon pioneered the approach of renting out computing power and storage to other companies in 2006. Research firm Gartner estimated in August that Amazon’s Web Services business had rented out more than five times as much space on servers as its nearest 14 rivals combined.”
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