Google BigQuery is designed to make it easy to analyze large amounts of data quickly. This year we've seen great updates: big scale JOINs and GROUP BYs, unlimited result sizes, smarter functions, bigger quotas, as well as multiple improvements to the web UI. Today we've gone even further, announcing several updates that give BigQuery the ability to work in real-time, query subsets of the latest data, more functions and browser tool improvements.Google Announces BigQuery Update With Real-Time Streaming Inserts and Time-Based Queries [googledevelopers.blogspot.com]