BigQuery
/ˌbɪg-ˈkwɪri/
n. “SQL at web-scale without breaking a sweat.”
BigQuery is Google Cloud Platform’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse. It allows users to run ultra-fast, SQL-based analytics over massive datasets without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, sharding, or scaling. Think of it as a playground for analysts and data engineers where terabytes or even petabytes of data can be queried in seconds.
GCP
/ˌdʒiː-siː-ˈpiː/
n. “Google’s playground for the cloud-minded.”
GCP, short for Google Cloud Platform, is Google’s public cloud suite that provides infrastructure, platform, and application services for businesses, developers, and data scientists. It’s designed to leverage Google’s expertise in scalability, networking, and data analytics while integrating seamlessly with services like BigQuery, AI, and Kubernetes.
/ˈɡuːɡəl/
n. “Search, index, serve, repeat.”
Google is a technology company and search engine that has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of services, platforms, and innovations. At its core, the name represents the act of finding information: it indexes billions of web pages and returns results in milliseconds, translating queries into answers, links, and recommendations.
Office
/ˈɒfɪs/
n. “Work, standardized.”
Office is a suite of productivity applications developed by Microsoft to handle the everyday mechanics of modern work: writing documents, analyzing data, creating presentations, managing email, and coordinating schedules. It is less a single tool and more a shared grammar for how organizations communicate.
Microsoft
/ˈmaɪ.krə.sɒft/
n. “Turning windows into worlds.”
Microsoft is the technology giant that helped shape modern computing, best known for its Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office suite. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, it began as a company creating interpreters for the BASIC programming language, eventually evolving into one of the most influential software and cloud computing companies in the world.