Google Secrets Revealed
September 29, 2014
Google is not the first name that comes to mind when you think about big data, but it is the first one for search. Google has even become a verb for searching and many people use it refer for any sort of Web browsing. Google is an accurate and reliable tool, but how does Google retain its title as top search engine in the world? Wired has an inside look at Google’s world and shares the information in ”Ex-Googler Shares His Big Data Secrets With The Masses.”
The ex-Googler discusses the tools the search giant uses to find information. One is Dremel, which is only available to Google employees. Dremel helps analyze data stored on a lot of machines at high speeds. The data is manipulated in a language similar to SQL.
While Dremel is limited to Google usage, a similar tool called Quest allows the common code developer to have access to Google quality tools. Theo Vassilakis developed Quest and its only one of the many tools people are working on to copy Google’s success. Vassilakis created Quest and quit his job at Google, because he wanted to help other companies have the same advantage as Google does. He formed the company with Metanautix with Toli Lerios with Quest as its headlining product.
How does Quest work?
“The idea behind Quest is to make it simple for analysts to query data from anywhere in a company with a single tool, regardless of where that data is stored, without the need to learn new programming languages. Using Quest, analysts can query traditional sources such as Oracle’s flagship database, “big data” storage systems like Hadoop, log files, Word documents, images and media files, and more. But it isn’t just a search engine. Just like Dremel, Quest lets you query data using a SQL-like language.”
The article stresses that Quest does not store data, but it can be used to move data across systems, analyze data, copy data, and keep track of changes made to it.
The article does not revel many Google secrets other than explaining that Google-like tools are available for purchase. Quest is only one of several tools on the market to analyze Big Data. Unlike other big data tools that explain all the benefits you can have from managing data, this one actually explains how it is done.
Whitney Grace, September 29, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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