just started playing around with it. We've been using hive on EMR with tables stored in S3 (json formatted). using a single m1.large to run run queries over an

just started playing around with it. We've been using hive on EMR with tables stored in S3 (json formatted). using a single m1.large to run run queries over an hour of data was taking 10-15 minutes. Bigquery returns the same query in seconds. For example, extracting referrer domains on big query: > Query complete (7.6s elapsed, 583 MB processed) granted that's with an under-provisioned emr "cluster", so I don't want to assign too much meaning to the results, but they are promising. I'll run some more comparisons on a larger cluster and update later.