Mark is joined in this episode by Avi Zloof from Evaluex to talk about the new world of elastically-provisioned cloud-hosted analytic databases such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, how their pricing model and vendor strategy differs from the traditional database vendors, and how machine learning can be used to automate performance tuning and optimize workloads in this new world of large-scale distributed query and storage. 

• SuperQuery - Free visualization tool for Google BigQuery
• SuperQuery Chrome Plugin
• Drill to Detail Ep.12 'Gluent and the New World of Hybrid Data' with Special Guest Tanel Poder
• BQQuery Mate Chrome Plugin