1 row in 3 seconds is not impressive. 5 billion rows in 56 seconds is. Let’s see how we went from a to b: BigQuery strengths: Throughput, not latencyIf you are expecting results in less than one second, BigQuery is not the right tool: Usually BigQuery won’t return results in less than one second. This because BigQuery was built for throughput, not for latency. A race car will always be faster than