Azure HDInsight vs Google BigQuery

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to save costs and just pay for what you use, I highly recommend it. It will help you also to work with data for your reports and analytics. on the other hand I think it could be the subscription you have but high volume of data make it slow but not so much. anyway I think it's really good because it's from Microsoft which always is friendly to use it as all the suit they have.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Management Consulting Company, 501-1000 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

Azure HDInsight

Google BigQuery

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

Pros

Data is presented without interfering others (IT or other dept).
Data is managed properly and is available for retrievable any time.
Legacy use of CD/DVD and Pendrive are not required.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ 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

Spark version is old and crappy.
Lack of integration with other Azure platforms.
There is more room for improvement in workload based scaling.
Not easy to use. Log report hardly shows anything and the interface is not user friendly.

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Partha Protim Pegu

Domain Consultant

InfosysInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ 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

Azure HDInsight 8.2

Based on 5 answers

Azure HDInsight is usable on the top of Azure Data Lake and gives us the benefit of analyzing large scale data workload in Hadoop. Usability and support from Microsoft are outstanding.

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Krishn Garg

SharePoint Development Consultant

InfosysComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Google BigQuery 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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 Rating

Azure HDInsight 8.2

Based on 5 answers

Well suited in advertising and marketing to serve the business purpose and best fit in the transformation of high volume data.

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Krishn Garg

SharePoint Development Consultant

InfosysComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Google BigQuery 8.4

Based on 16 answers

I rated the overall support for Google BigQuery as a mediocre five because it has limited support from Google. Instead, it is heavily dependent on an organization's IT resources such as SQL analysts and Data Architects to run big data reports or maintain data quality. Additionally, if errors occur during a run of complex SQL queries or when sending data to Google BigQuery from other sources, Google provides basic email support which needs to be complemented with internal data warehouse support to fix the root cause of the database errors. Finally, due to constraints on the amount of data an analyst can query or pay the additional cost when exceeding the limit, basic Google support is not sufficient to meet data needs without interruption.

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Analyst in Marketing

Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

At this time I have not used any other similar products... I am open to it but Azure HDInsight and its components really work well for our organization.

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Kristin Page

Senior Recruiter

Valeo ResourcesHuman Resources, 11-50 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

ROI is of course there, as no legacy software for data presentation.
No manual intervention for data retrieval.
Data is available anywhere as requested.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ 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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure HDInsight Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Google BigQuery Editions & Modules

Edition

Queries (On-Demand)	$5¹
Queries (Hourly Flex Slots)	$4²
Queries (Monthly Flat Rate)	$2000²
Queries (Annual Flat Rate)	$1,700²

per TB
per 100 slots

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Rating Summary

Azure HDInsight

Google BigQuery

Azure HDInsight

Google BigQuery

Azure HDInsight

Google BigQuery

Azure HDInsight vs Google BigQuery

Azure HDInsight

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 Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Azure HDInsight Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Google BigQuery Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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Usability

Support Rating

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