If you’re trying to do business intelligence (BI) on big data and the capability to handle large number of concurrent queries is a key issue for you, Google BigQuery may well be the way to go, according to a new Business Intelligence Benchmark released Thursday by AtScale, a startup specializing in helping organizations enable BI on big data.
“Concurrency has been an Achilles’ Heel, a challenge for SQL-on-Hadoop,” says Josh Klahr, vice president of product management for AtScale.