Amazon SimpleDB vs Google BigQuery

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for: Games, Chat rooms, real time software like corporate events, marathons and so. Anytime and anywhere you could use a NoSQL DB you should think of SimpleDB.

As an arduous AWS user, Amazon SimpleDB easily integrates with EC2 and other AWS module; and if you are not an AWS user, you also have a fantastic tool that will solve the problem for which you are focused.

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Miguel Angel Merino Vega

Analista de Sistemas

Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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BigQuery is unlike anything we've used as a big data tool. It is perfectly suited to query large data sets quickly and to store those large data sets for any time use. It's perfect for storing data and using it for reports. Logging data is the perfect application for BigQuery, but transactional data is possible as well

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Tristan Dobbs

Vice President of Shared Services

CloudbakersComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon SimpleDB

Google BigQuery

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

Pros

Flexibility
Easy to learn and use
AWS integration

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Miguel Angel Merino Vega

Analista de Sistemas

Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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How many pros can a person type? This storage program gives workers and students the reality of unlimited storage space. I have never came close to overfilling my google cloud storage because it's huge and the best. I can view anything I save on there from any of my internet devices which is very important.
Depending on how you have the program set up - either online or through an application that lives on your desktop, dragging and dropping files to and from Cloud Storage couldn't be any more uncomplicated. Plus, new users who meet certain criteria - like updating personal security, or share the program receive additional free online storage.
The array of tools is very impressive, intuitive to use, and well organized in the sense that you don't have to go looking for individual apps. They're all easily accessed via a single dropdown.

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Sam Lepak

Head of Digital Marketing

YachtLifeInternet, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Non AWS environments
Strict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)

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Miguel Angel Merino Vega

Analista de Sistemas

Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Though it is SQL some syntax are different but they are getting used to after you use for some time.
The legacy SQL is in beta state but can be used and you can run the query with simple SQL.
More documentation is needed for using User-defined functions in Big Query.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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Google BigQuery 9.0

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BigQuery is a little bit difficult to learn at first. The tools are all there but it takes a few hours of practice and trial and error to be comfortable processing a large dataset. It can handle quite a bit and the cloud storage makes those experimental practice hours much easier to do in your spare time. The software is capable of doing a lot, it's just a matter of being patient and learning the ways of BigQuery.

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Employee in Professional Services

Environmental Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Support

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Google BigQuery 8.8

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Online documentation was readily available and it was easy to connected with the product management team for Google BigQuery during Google Cloud Next 2019 event. We didn't have to open a SR/ticket through the usual support channel to get our issues resolved!

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Analyst in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

It integrates beautifully with AWS. In some projects we use SimpleDB while we use DynamoDB for others, according to the characteristics of the project. If the infrastructure is AWS, we always think of one of them.

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Miguel Angel Merino Vega

Analista de Sistemas

Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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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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Csaba Toth

Software Engineer

SportsBoard Mobile Player Assessment SolutionsResearch, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduced database administration time
Reduced data model analysis time
Lower cost of resources in projects in general

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Miguel Angel Merino Vega

Analista de Sistemas

Consultor independiente de softwareComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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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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Alex Andrews

Solution Architect

Ovative/groupMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Amazon SimpleDB vs Google BigQuery

Amazon SimpleDB

Google BigQuery

Feature Rating Comparison

Database-as-a-Service

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

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Cons

Usability

Support

Alternatives Considered

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Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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