nodejs-bigquery VS dagster

If you've ever wondered what it's like to manage a BigQuery instance at Reddit scale, know that it's exactly like smaller systems just with much, much bigger numbers in the logs. Database management fundamentals are eerily similar regardless of scale or platform; BigQuery handles just about anything we throw at it, and we do indeed throw it the whole book. Our BigQuery platform is more than 100 petabytes of data that supports data science, machine learning, and analytics workloads that drive experiments, analytics, advertising, revenue, safety, and more. As Reddit grew, so did the workload velocity and complexity within BigQuery and thus the need for more elegant and fine-tuned workload management.

Now I know I've got some data I could use, I now need to find a platform that I can use to analyse the data coming from the Forem API. I did consider some other pieces of software, such as Google BigQuery (with looker studio) and ElasticSearch (with Kibana), I ultimately went with OpenSearch which is essentially a forked version of ElasticSearch maintained by AWS. The main reasons are that I could host it locally for free (unlike BigQuery). I do have some prior experience with both elastic (back when it was called ELK) and OpenSearch, but my work with OpenSearch was far more recent, so I decided to go with that.

First, in one of our recent projects, we helped our client to run the cloud-based infrastructure of their entirely automated, real-time SEO platform. The solution rested in the safe familiarity of Google’s popular cloud-based data centres (i.e. Google Cloud Platform), whilst also making use of BigQuery — a serverless, multi-cloud data warehouse.

Bigquery as our data warehouse

This post in github thinks it may be an error in bigquery's backend.

A data warehouse is a specialized database that's purpose built for gathering and analyzing data. Unlike general-purpose databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, which are designed to meet the real-time performance and transactional needs of applications, a data warehouse is designed to collect and process the data produced by those applications, collectively and over time, to help you gain insight from it. Examples of data-warehouse products include Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Amazon Redshift — all of which, incidentally, are easily managed with Pulumi.

Google BigQuery

My recommendation is to continue on with the tutorial, then look at one of the larger example projects especially the ones named “project_”, and you should understand most of it. Of what you don't understand and you're curious about, look into the relevant concept page for the functions in the docs.

I found this example that helped me - https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/tree/master/examples/project_fully_featured/project_fully_featured

I would recommend the following: - https://www.mage.ai/ - https://dagster.io/ - https://www.prefect.io/ - https://metaflow.org/ - https://zenml.io/home

In Helm terms: there are 2 charts, namely the system: dagster/dagster (values.yaml), and the user code: dagster/dagster-user-deployments (values.yaml). Note that you have to set dagster-user-deployments.enabled: true in the dagster/dagster values-yaml to enable this.

Dagster seemed really cool when I looked into it as an alternative to airflow. I especially like the software defined assets and built-in lineage which I haven't seen in any other tool. However it seems it does not support RBAC which is a pretty big issue if you want a self-service type of architecture, see https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/issues/2219. It does seem like it's available in their hosted version, but I wanted to run it myself on k8s.

Dagster? https://dagster.io

One that I haven't seen on here yet: dagster