1. Introduction 2. Analytical databases aggregate large amounts of data 3. Most platforms enable you to do the same thing but have different strengths 3.1. Understand how the platforms process data 3.1.1. A compute engine is a system that transforms data 3.1.2. Metadata catalog stores information about datasets 3.1.3. Data platform support for SQL, Dataframe, and Dataset APIs 3.1.4. Query planner turns your code into concrete execution steps 3.