Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) vs. Google BigQuery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon QLDB
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Amazon QLDB (for Quantum Ledger Database) is a fully managed ledger database that provides what the vendor describes as a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a central trusted authority. Amazon QLDB can be used to track each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time. Notably, with QLDB data’s change history is immutable – it cannot be altered or deleted – and using cryptography, users can…
$0.03
Per GB-month
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Google's BigQuery is part of the Google Cloud Platform, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) supporting the querying and rapid analysis of enterprise data.
$4
per 100 slots
Pricing
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)Google BigQuery
Editions & Modules
Journal Storage
$0.03
Per GB-month
Read I/Os
$0.136
Per Million Requests
Inndexed Storage
$0.25
Per GB-month
Write I/Os
$0.70
Per Million Requests
Queries (Hourly Flex Slots)
$4
per 100 slots
Queries (On-Demand)
$5
per TB
Queries (Annual Flat Rate)
$1,700
per 100 slots
Queries (Monthly Flat Rate)
$2000
per 100 slots
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon QLDBGoogle BigQuery
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
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Ratings
Google BigQuery
8.8
30 Ratings
1% above category average
Automatic software patching00 Ratings8.717 Ratings
Database scalability00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
Automated backups00 Ratings8.924 Ratings
Database security provisions00 Ratings9.124 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
Automatic host deployment00 Ratings8.813 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)Google BigQuery
Small Businesses
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)Google BigQuery
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(31 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(16 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)Google BigQuery
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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Google
One of the most important aspects while working with data warehousing solutions and analytics is the ability to handle large datasets. Google BigQuery is the best in business for that particular aspect. It is ridiculously fast while handling large data sets. Another aspect where it is well suited is the ability to integrate it with data visualization tools like Data Studio. It is fast, easy to use, and very reliable. The only aspect where I feel it is less appropriate where you have to pay more of inefficient scripts and that can hamper the growth of the company a bit.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
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Google
  • BigQuery is ridiculously fast and has the ability to query absurdly large data sets to return results immediately.
  • BigQuery allows for storage of a massive amount of data for relatively low prices.
  • Easy to learn. BiqQuery uses SQL-like queries and is easy to transfer your existing skills to use.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Google
  • One issue with Google Cloud Storage is its price. For one to have that premium Google Cloud Storage, for the purpose of massive storage, he/she must have adequate cash. Otherwise, Google Cloud Storage is a safe and perfect online storage platform.
  • The only thing that can come to mind that would be annoying with this software was that sometimes when trying to share files on the Cloud with coworkers, it would just not share at all, or there would be a massive delay in when I shared them and when they received them. Other than that though, everything is perfect with this.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Google
web UI is easy and convenient. Many RDBMS clients such as aqua data studio, Dbeaver data grid, and others connect. Range of well-documented APIs available. The range of features keeps expanding, increasing similar features to traditional RDBMS such as Oracle and DB2
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Google
It’s Google, they’re big and well organized, the documentation is abundant and the scalability is amazing. The UX is good too, considering it’s a professional tool expected to be used by people with a specific technical background. Overall, it makes me feels good and secure that we know where to store the data, how to use that data and that the data is handled with utmost security and performance practices.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Google
Spinning up, provisioning, maintaining and debugging a Hadoop solution can be non-trivial, painful. I'm talking about both GCE based or HDInsight clusters. It requires expertise (+ employee hire, costs). With BigQuery if someone has a good SQL knowledge (and maybe a little programming), can already start to test and develop. All of the infrastructure and platform services are taken care of. Google BigQuery is a magnitudes simpler to use than Hadoop, but you have to evaluate the costs. BigQuery billing is dependent on your data size and how much data your query touches.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Google
None so far. Very satisfied with the transparency on contract terms and pricing model.
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Professional Services
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Google
Google Support has kindly provide individual support and consultants to assist with the integration work. In the circumstance where the consultants are not present to support with the work, Google Support Helpline will always be available to answer to the queries without having to wait for more than 3 days.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
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Google
  • Google BigQuery has had enormous impact in terms of ROI to our business, as it has allowed us to ease our dependence on our physical servers, which we pay for monthly from another hosting service. We have been able to run multiple enterprise scale data processing applications with almost no investment
  • Since our business is highly client focused, Google Cloud Platform, and BigQuery specifically, has allowed us to get very granular in how our usage should be attributed to different projects, clients, and teams.
  • Plain and simple, I believe the meager investments that we have made in Google BigQuery have paid themselves back hundreds of times over.
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