“The most surprising thing that I learned was that most of the people using “Big Query” don’t really have Big Data.”
Tigani was a founding engineer on BigQuery and spent a decade selling the data explosion from conference stages. Among heavy BigQuery users, median storage was well under 100 GB, and 90% of queries touched less than 100 MB. The scare slide sold clusters to companies whose data fits on a laptop. This post runs on MotherDuck’s blog, so the pitch deck simply flipped.