support for BigQuery in our existing "database" extension (which implements all the SQL integration). That means being able to run a SQL query on that backend and download

rightly suggest BigQuery which is heavily optimized for facet-style filtering operations (you have no idea how much) but the latency is at least an order of magnitude inferior (seconds

>> BigQuery, depending on what you were trying to do). >> >> Rather than worrying about any kind of porting at all, I'd look into >> using Amazon EC2 or

Refine > BigQuery & Prediction API. Personally, I'm glad Google doesn't restrict users to this. I think the benefits of a local service far outweigh a centralised