When Google BigQuery launched in 2012, it introduced several novel service designs: a fully managed “serverless” operational model, rapidly scalable and multi-tenant compute, pay-per-job pricing, in-place data sharing, and perhaps most significantly: separation of storage and compute. Separation of storage and compute specifically offers a wide range of benefits to BigQuery users. By decoupling th
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