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What is Google BigQuery?

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.

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  • Database scalability (50)
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  • Database security provisions (43)
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  • Automated backups (24)
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  • Monitoring and metrics (45)
    8.4
    84%

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$0.04 / slot hour

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$0.06 / slot hour

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$0.10 / slot hour

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6.25 per TiB (after the 1st 1 TiB per month, which is free)
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Lesson#6 - BigQuery for beginners| Analyzing data in google bigquery | Step by step tutorial (2020)

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How to get started with BigQuery

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BigQuery, IPython, Pandas and R for data science, starring Pearson

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Google BigQuery Demo

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Google BigQuery introduction by Jordan Tigani

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Database as a Service (DBaaS) software, sometimes referred to as cloud database software, is the delivery of database services ocer the Internet as a service

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Product Details

What is Google BigQuery?

Google BigQuery is a serverless, multicloud data warehouse that simplifies the process of working with all types of data. At the core of Google’s data cloud, BigQuery can be used to simplify data integration and securely scale analytics, share rich data experiences with built-in business intelligence, and train and deploy ML models with a simple SQL interface, helping to make an organization’s operations more data-driven.

BigQuery is a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform that helps you maximize value from your data and is designed to be multi-engine, multi-format, and multi-cloud.

Store 10 GiB of data and run up to 1 TiB of queries for free per month.


Gemini in BigQuery for an AI-powered assistive experience

BigQuery provides a single, unified workspace that includes a SQL, a notebook and a NL-based canvas interface for data practitioners of various coding skills to simplify analytics workflows from data ingestion and preparation to data exploration and visualization to ML model creation and use. Gemini in BigQuery provides AI-powered assistive and collaboration features including code assist, visual data preparation, and intelligent recommendations that help enhance productivity and optimize costs.


Bring multiple engines to a single copy of data

Serverless Apache Spark is available directly in BigQuery. BigQuery Studio lets users write and execute Spark without exporting data or managing infrastructure. BigQuery metastore provides shared runtime metadata for SQL and open source engines for a unified set of security and governance controls across all engines and storage types. By bringing multiple engines, including SQL, Spark and Python, to a single copy of data and metadata, the solution breaks down data silos.


Built-in machine learning

BigQuery ML provides built-in capabilities to create and run ML models for BigQuery data. It offers a broad range of models for predictions, and access to the latest Gemini models to derive insights from all data types and unlock generative AI tasks such as text summarization, text generation, multimodal embeddings, and vector search. It increases the model development speed by directly applying ML to data and eliminating the need to move data from BigQuery.


Built-in data governance

Data governance is built into BigQuery, including full integration of Dataplex capabilities such as a unified metadata catalog, data quality, lineage, and profiling. Customers can use rich AI-driven metadata search and discovery capabilities for assets including dataset schemas, notebooks and reports, public and commercial dataset listings, and more. BigQuery users can also use governance rules to manage policies on BigQuery object tables.

Google BigQuery Features

Database-as-a-Service Features

  • Supported: Database scalability
  • Supported: Database security provisions
  • Supported: Monitoring and metrics

Google BigQuery Screenshots

Screenshot of Migrating data warehouses to BigQuery - Features a streamlined migration path from Netezza, Oracle, Redshift, Teradata, or Snowflake to BigQuery using the fully managed BigQuery Migration Service.Screenshot of bringing any data into BigQuery - Data files can be uploaded from local sources, Google Drive, or Cloud Storage buckets, using BigQuery Data Transfer Service (DTS), Cloud Data Fusion plugins, by replicating data from relational databases with Datastream for BigQuery, or by leveraging Google's data integration partnerships.Screenshot of generative AI use cases with BigQuery and Gemini models - Data pipelines that blend structured data, unstructured data and generative AI models together can be built to create a new class of analytical applications. BigQuery integrates with Gemini 1.0 Pro using Vertex AI. The Gemini 1.0 Pro model is designed for higher input/output scale and better result quality across a wide range of tasks like text summarization and sentiment analysis. It can be accessed using simple SQL statements or BigQuery’s embedded DataFrame API from right inside the BigQuery console.Screenshot of insights derived from images, documents, and audio files, combined with structured data - Unstructured data represents a large portion of untapped enterprise data. However, it can be challenging to interpret, making it difficult to extract meaningful insights from it. Leveraging the power of BigLake, users can derive insights from images, documents, and audio files using a broad range of AI models including Vertex AI’s vision, document processing, and speech-to-text APIs, open-source TensorFlow Hub models, or custom models.Screenshot of event-driven analysis - Built-in streaming capabilities automatically ingest streaming data and make it immediately available to query. This allows users to make business decisions based on the freshest data. Or Dataflow can be used to enable simplified streaming data pipelines.Screenshot of predicting business outcomes AI/ML - Predictive analytics can be used to streamline operations, boost revenue, and mitigate risk. BigQuery ML democratizes the use of ML by empowering data analysts to build and run models using existing business intelligence tools and spreadsheets.Screenshot of tracking marketing ROI and performance with data and AI - Unifying marketing and business data sources in BigQuery provides a holistic view of the business, and first-party data can be used to deliver personalized and targeting marketing at scale with ML/AI built-in. Looker Studio or Connected Sheets can share these insights.Screenshot of BigQuery data clean rooms for privacy-centric data sharing - Creates a low-trust environment to collaborate in without copying or moving the underlying data right within BigQuery. This is used to perform privacy-enhancing transformations in BigQuery SQL interfaces and monitor usage to detect privacy threats on shared data.

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Demo: Solving business challenges with an end-to-end analysis in BigQuery

Google BigQuery Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Google BigQuery starts at $6.25.

Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and Databricks Lakehouse Platform are common alternatives for Google BigQuery.

Reviewers rate Database scalability highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Google BigQuery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Rajender Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are analyzing large volumes of data generated by IoT devices to derive actionable insights and improve decision-making and for monitoring purpose while sitting from different places around the globe. Google BigQuery is helping us in setting up automation of gear manufacturing process in factories so as to reduce human effort.

  • Provide real time data for analysis and monitoring purpose.
  • SQL based queries makes it user friendly.
  • It can handle large amount of data.
  • sometime faced performance issues in query execution
  • training material is not easily available
  • Continuous maintenance required
Google BigQuery we have used while processing large amount of data when connected with Iot devices in automation factory which continuously give real time data and Google BigQuery can handle it very easily.

Sometime Small volume of data require same effort of writing query which is little bit hectic for users.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company, Randstad, uses BigQuery as our data warehouse to store all our lead information and marketing metrics. It pulls numbers from various sources and then creates master data sources, which we use for the performance dashboards we present to internal stakeholders. More recently, we have been using Big Query to host our historical data from Google Analytics.
  • Good place to store historical data.
  • It has free connectors to other Google platforms like Looker, which makes it easy to use as a data source.
  • User interface is easy to navigate.
  • Hard to find data if you don't know where everything is hosted.
  • If you have to upload excel files it takes so long.
  • If you aren't a technical users you likely won't know how to use BigQuery effectively.
BigQuery has been a great product for getting information from many different sources. We can use BigQuery to connect/join other sources together and find ways to match the data together to have a master data source. There have been times when we have used it, though, when I do not think it was needed and it was probably more of a headache.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The scope of my use case is data governance relevant. My organization uses Google big query as the primary tool for storing, reading, updating and analyzing data. Due to the big size of the organization, we have an increasing number of data consumers and my specific use case is to provide a data control panel to make sure the data is being used properly according to the data Governance policies.
  • Reading and analyzing data
  • Easy access management through GCP
  • Export data easily to further tools such lookers and spreadsheets
  • Query size warning
  • Limitations to daily usage
  • Best practices recommendations
Google big query is perfect for simple and fast use-cases where users need to access data quickly and and seamless. GCP IAM makes it easy to have a control on who can access the data and and provides services accounts to automate jobs. Which then makes it easy to have an overview on th data consumption.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigQuery majorly for two purposes. Our data engineering team develops trends based on collected data over BigQuery. That helps us strategize our feature rollouts. The second use case where we make use of BigQuery is in our tests dashboard. We collect test success and failure data and use BigQuery to categorise different failures, calculate failure rates and show trend for errors after weekly releases.
  • Mining large data sets
  • Determining trends
  • Strategize product depending on the trends
  • It can be slow at times
  • Could be difficult for a first time user
Google BigQuery is suitable for use cases where there is a need for continuous data collection and one would want to mine that data, derive trends and behavioral data based on set parameters.
Nir Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Google BigQuery to store and analyze our big-data and analytics for one of our major projects. We stream different types of data from different sources into BQ and use complex queries to join data from different sources. Data can be queried both programmatically from our application, or displayed using tools like Looker Data Studio.
  • Store large amounts of semi-tabular data
  • Allows complex and fast queries
  • Allows streaming of data from different sources
  • Unstructured data is complex to query
  • Costs can be high if using large data sets
  • It's hard to estimate costs as they depend on usage
I would use Google BigQuery for storing data warehouse information, streaming from multiple sources, and displaying either in my application's dashboard, Looker Studio, or Grafana. It's very easy to stream data from Firebase to BQ, and very effective as well. It is hard to stream data from your main database, and requires some work, but I believe it is worth the effort.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Google's big query to store and analyze vast amounts of data. In today's time, every organization requires real-time insights from the data. BigQuery can be Integrated with popular BI tools to visualize data and generate actionable insights, aiding in department decision-making processes. With BigQuery, we have a centralized repository for all organizational data, facilitating easy access for analysis and reporting.
  • Scale automatically to handle datasets of any size.
  • BigQuery can perform extremely fast SQL queries across vast datasets.
  • Pay-as-you-go model, BigQuery allows users to pay only for the data processed and stored.
  • It is challenging to predict costs due to BigQuery's pay-per-query pricing model. User-friendly cost estimation tools, along with improved budget alerting features, could help users better manage and predict expenses.
  • The BigQuery interface is less intuitive. A more user-friendly interface, enhanced documentation, and built-in tutorial systems could make BigQuery more accessible to a broader audience.
For organizations looking to avoid the overhead of managing infrastructure, BigQuery's server-less architecture allows teams to focus on analyzing data without worrying about server maintenance or capacity planning. Small projects or startups with limited data analysis needs and tight budgets might find other solutions more cost-effective. Also, it is not suitable for OLTP systems.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
As a supplement solution to the main enterprise systems for reporting, it is mostly used for the R&D department. The aim was to query rather diverse and semi-structured data from various systems. Some of the sources were wide, some deep and a few were both. Other tools for storing and querying were tried as well.
  • Good python package.
  • SQL knowledge goes a long way though some peculiars are confusing.
  • Make it more simple to administrate login from python.
  • Difficult to estimate cost prior.
Good for large datasets where query performance is otherwise an issue. It is bad for diverse data sources that are not large enough to really benefit and are overkill. Similar to use cases where many users need to query infrequently, where the minor syntax differences between SQL and Google Big Query can be annoying.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Due to its lower cost, we use BigQuery as our primary database to store most of our data. We also use BigQuery to run periodic analytical tasks. We mainly use it for our WebSights product which collects and stores many user demographics and enriches IP traffic.
  • Ease of use
  • Scalability
  • Lots of integrated Google Cloud features
  • Query Latency
  • Indexing
  • Few errors when exporting data to buckets
Google BigQuery integrated really when with a product that generates enormous amount of data, since appending data to BigQuery is much faster even in high frequency. They also offer a generous free tier which helps in determining its suitability and costs scale according the usage. If you need a really low latency query execution, this might not be what you are looking for.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google BigQuery is being used in unlocking real-time user data and boost data-processing power to perform more extensive business analytics. Along with other complimenting products like Dataplex, it has become a solid warehouse for the whole organization to make data-backed decisions.
  • Data warehouse
  • Complex queries
  • Server-less
  • Real-time queries
  • The speed at which the queries run
  • Suggesting insights from within the data automatically
  • Making it simpler for a non-tech person to access it
Good for:
- Unlocking real-time user data
- Boosting data-processing power
- Performing more extensive business analytics

Not so good for:
- Transactional data
- Updating data
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google BigQuery in conjunction with Bloomreach, this allows us to query the back end of the data without having to use the front end. The tool is fast to run queries and allows us to move the data to our other Data Warehouse environments quickly with little effort.
  • Fast Query Engine
  • Useful Documentation
  • similar syntax to SQL server
  • UI - its not the nicest UI
  • Original setup can be challenging
  • Depending on how you use it can become expensive
Google BigQuery handles big data sets really well and has a solid enginge to query and maniulapte the data. The syntax is easy to pick up if your use to other database languages like SQL server but there are some syntax differences. Once setup it is a simple product to use and utilise
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google BigQuery as a data warehouse to pull data from analytics platforms such as Google Analytics. This allows us to create various tables containing the exact data various parts of the business need. We can then create dashboards for end-users internally. It especially answers our needs in terms of user behaviour and engagement. Our data capabilities are reinforced and much more scalable.
  • Syncing with Google products, e.g. Looker studio. Easy to create dashboards when putting a Google BigQuery data table as data source.
  • Scalability. It allows many opportunities across the business.
  • It's easy enough to write SQL statements front-end to explore the data tables.
  • Interface difficult to understand for new users.
  • Not much support provided.
  • Having to wait roughly 24 hours before getting the data from Google Analytics into Google BigQuery. A shorter time would be great.
Google BigQuery is suited to easily sync/connect different Google products for analytics purposes. Google BigQuery is a great data warehouse if a business use Google Analytics. It also allows more autonomy to various end users with diverse technical knowledge to create dashboards independently in Google Data Studio (now Looker Studio).
Deep Mukherji | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We deal with massive datasets – customer transactions, website logs, sensor data from our products – all running into terabytes. Google BigQuery acts as our central data warehouse and ingests data from various sources, like CRM systems, marketing tools and also from internal applications. It's not just the marketing team or data scientists who leverage it. Sales uses it for customer segmentation and churn analysis. The product team relies on it for user behaviour analysis and identifying feature adoption trends. The speed of Google BigQuery is mind-blowing. I can run complex SQL queries on massive datasets and get results almost instantly.
  • Its serverless architecture and underlying Dremel technology are incredibly fast even on complex datasets. I can get answers to my questions almost instantly, without waiting hours for traditional data warehouses to churn through the data.
  • Previously, our data was scattered across various databases and spreadsheets and getting a holistic view was pretty difficult. Google BigQuery acts as a central repository and consolidates everything in one place to join data sets and find hidden patterns.
  • Running reports on our old systems used to take forever. Google BigQuery's crazy fast query speed lets us get insights from massive datasets in seconds.
  • Google BigQuery's built-in visualization tools are limited compared to dedicated BI tools. Expanding the options and allowing for more customization would help explore and present data insights.
  • Currently, it's hard to track where the data comes from and how it changes as it moves through the pipeline because it lacks data lineage capabilities. It's tough to ensure data quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
  • The current access control options are somewhat limited. Granular control over specific datasets or tables within a project would help manage access in collaborative environments.
If you've already invested in the Google Cloud ecosystem and since Google BigQuery is part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it easily integrates with other GCP services like Cloud Storage for data storage and Cloud Data Studio for data visualization. We only pay for the resources we use, unlike traditional data warehouses with fixed costs regardless of usage, thanks to its pay-per-use pricing model with no upfront investment and ongoing maintenance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Analytics Powerhouse. Google BigQuery is the best solution if you want to find trends from your past data. It is a Data warehouse which has SQL and ML capabilities. We have been using Google BigQuery for analyzing our customers billing data and creating dashboards in Looker Studio which can be used by our Sales teams.
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • The UI and the whole Google BigQuery studio is full of clutter.
  • It's very hard to find error logs related to your application if the backend is Google BigQuery
  • It's hard to share specific tables with someone which has a different place than Cloud IAM.
Google BigQuery is well suited if you have TB or PBs of data which needs to be analyzed with accuracy and then you need to find trends or create dashboards as it has seemless integration with Looker.

Google BigQuery is not well suited if your Database is very small. As the Google BigQuery architecture take similar time in small database which is counter intuitive.
Ilyas Bakirov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We tried to use Google BigQuery to analyze, perform and build various custom queries to our large set of geological historical data. To solve our needs in geological analysis of huge data, we looked around at what tools would allow us to optimally perform analytical work without capital expensenses and learning new tool.
  • Managing Data
  • Complex Queries (SQL dialect supported)
  • Integration capabilities with Google products
  • User interface might be complex for newbies
  • Access management confusing and tight with IAM roles
  • Can be expensive for different workloads types
Managed service without any capital investment for users. New users must have knowledge of BigQuery and SQL in order to use it correctly and for its intended purpose. Also scales well and groups according to the size of the dataset and tasks.
Ömer Perçin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are analyzing loads of financial data and therefore had to find a solution which can handle the amount of data we have in our organization. The data insights generated by reports based on Google BigQuery are very valuable to all stakeholders involved. Google BigQuery helped a lot in our use case.
  • Performance
  • Setup
  • Security
  • Ease of Use
  • User interface
  • Dependencies to other solutions
Financial reporting and transactional reporting is suited well for Google BigQuery A lot of data like data streams are supported very well. Small scale usages are not adviced. The integration efforts are not marginal and should not be under estimated Also in case of data security concerns, I think Google is never a best practice to be used provider.
Score 9 out of 10
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We are using Google BigQuery to store all events data of our app and Since our events data are recorded every second wise so it's a large data set of events that are easily handled by Google BigQuery since Google BigQuery has minimal charges for storage and mainly it will charge for running the query inside the Google BigQuery so it will be very easy for us to store a large database in Google BigQuery.
  • Store Large data set
  • Very minimal Charge for Storage
  • You can write SQL queries on Google BigQuery
  • There is no training module for Google BigQuery for that reason newcomers will face problems with the user interface and not be familiar with the syntax of SQL query format of Google BigQuery
  • There are some functions which are only used in Google BigQuery which I feel difficult to understand and no one is there for you on how it will work so I think there should be some customer support team would be there where you can raise your concerns with the team.
As previously mentioned Google BigQuery is perfect for storage of you have large data sets since they are charging very minimal charge for storage but they will charge for every single query that you run on Google BigQuery so if you have large data sets then go for it. If you want to do query on the data then Google BigQuery will already provide and you can also build the dashboard with your data on Google Data Studio.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Our business uses Google BigQuery to analyze data from Google Analytics (both UA and GA4). The platform has an easy to understand layout that has improved a lot over the years. One of the key features that makes it user friendly is the ability to have side-by-side tabs of different code and output. This makes it easy to compare multiple versions of data. This platform is used to help us track are key web vitals that inform on us our sites performance. Because we have multiple different key variables that are stored in different locations, we often need to join data tables together or compare data between the different locations.
  • Side-by-side view of tabs for easy comparisons
  • Ability to open multiple tabs to switch through different pieces of code
  • Easy to understand layout of projects and tables
  • More detailed descriptions of errors when running code
  • Ability to export larger files as csv
Google BigQuery is great when you have a large body of information that needs to be analyzed. It provides an estimate of how much data is going to be queried which can help you identify if you need to optimize your code further before running.
March 12, 2024

Great Data Warehouse.

Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigQuery as our data warehouse to store a large part of our data. We also use BigQuery to normalize, tie together, and prepare data for data visualization. It allows us to tether disparate data sources to create analyzable and comprehensive KPIs at granular and high-level layers.
  • Storage
  • Error Checking.
  • Organization
  • Global Query Search.
  • Query Scheduling.
  • UI Speed.
BigQuery is great for organizing and preparing data for data analysis, reporting, and visualization. Using Standard SQL to query data within the data warehouse is a comprehensive and resource-rich language that is easy to use and robust. It is very helpful when multiple data sources must be strung together for analysis.
March 12, 2024

Great platform

Score 9 out of 10
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Incentivized
Google BigQuery serves as our essential PaaS tool for streamlined data management and analysis. As a serverless solution, it offers automatic scaling, eliminating infrastructure hassles. Leveraging its advanced capabilities, we efficiently process large datasets through SQL queries. This empowers our organization with rapid, insightful decision-making, fostering a dynamic, data-driven approach that enhances overall operational efficiency and strategic planning.
  • Efficiently analyzes large datasets
  • Shallow Learning Curve
  • Offers more flexibility/customization
I would rate 9 out of 10. The platform's user-friendly interface and ease of learning make it accessible for various team members. Its exceptional capability to handle big data seamlessly aligns with our diverse analytics needs. The serverless architecture streamlines operations, enhancing overall efficiency. While there's room for slight improvements, Google BigQuery remains a valuable asset, significantly impacting our data analytics and decision-making processes.
Score 9 out of 10
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Incentivized
We are the reseller of Google Analytics and with Google Analytics premium you get Big Query. You get 500$ credit to use in Big Query. Big Query is a great tool to get unsampled reports, that can be further used for different analysis also to build products on top of it. Big Query can help you to analyze user journey, enhanced eCommerce data for creating remarketing audience. You just need to know SQL and you can use Big Query to get whatever data you want. Big Query can be further utilized for your own purpose, you can upload your CRM data and map with Google Analytics data.
  • Big Query is fast and based on the cloud you can run your query on a huge dataset. Huge means data in TB's. This also reduces the company cost to build that kind of infrastructure to store data.
  • Not specific to Google Analytics but you can import data from different sources for analysis purpose and use the power of the cloud to run the query.
  • Not much time to learn - You don't need any special skills, just SQL and you can use Big Query for your use. Learning SQL is not a big task you can learn it in a week.
  • Big Query refrence schema and different sample query are available to practice on queries.
  • Google also provide sample dataset to use then purchase Big Query.
  • 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.
- If you are using Google Analytics and there is huge data that is getting streamed every day then you must have Big Query and use it for analysis. It is not only helpful for analysis but also for debugging your Google Analytics implementations.
- For analyzing a small dataset you don't need Big Query you can use normal MySQL on your own premises. Analyzing on Un-structured data is not possible with Big Query.
Score 10 out of 10
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My organization is primarily concerned with training individuals to use store and analyze large amounts of data in a manner that is fast and accurate. Google BigQuery makes it possible to use the Cloud's infrastructure (hardware and software) to accomplish its data analysis goals. Being able to pay for the time and space that is utilized offers significant cost savings, especially for smaller (and mid-size) businesses and those that do not possess adequate resources for establishing a high-capacity infrastructure.
  • Allows for fast and efficient analysis of huge amounts of data
  • Allows for running interactive and batch queries
  • Allows for creation of dashboards and reports
  • Allows for real-time analytics on a server-less architecture
  • Streaming data can be expensive
  • Does not support advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques
  • Number of partitions in tables are limited to 4,000
I found Google BigQuery very easy to use from the very beginning. Users do need a very good knowledge of SQL in order to write queries that are processed efficiently. Using Select * queries can bog down resources and drive up costs.
Score 10 out of 10
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Google BigQuery allows querying multiple datasets within seconds using Sql. It also helps optimise queries to get results quickly.We can preview data without incurring costs. Google BigQuery is a fully managed, serverless, super fast data warehouse with no equivalent in the cloud space. It also creates graph using the data to help generate insights and view trends.
  • Automatically optimises queries to fetch data quickly
  • Allows efficient management of data across multiple databases
  • The editor and query builder have a very intuitive interface that makes it easy to build new queries fast
  • Not able to search specific column fields using search functionality
  • Uploading database using excel is time consuming and error prone
  • The error message thrown while querying can be more customisable to correct the errors
Google BigQuery is a great way to manage data across multiple databases within the organisation. The speed of querying makes it highly valuable. The graphs and charts helps analyse the draw insights from the data effectively. We also get a real time understanding of how much time it will take to run the query. We can choose a highly customisable plan as per the need of the organisation to effectively manage the licensing and costs.
Lee L Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google BigQuery to pull marketing data into a warehouse, run queries on the data to transform it into a more usable form, and then use the resulting tables as data sources for marketing reporting platforms. The problem it addresses is our need for a comprehensive data warehouse where we can store all our business and marketing data so that we can visualize and report on it later on.
  • Inexpensive data storage.
  • Relatively easy to use interface once you get used to it.
  • Inexpensive query costs.
  • Good number of native integrations.
  • Difficult to use interface if you're not used to it.
  • User management has proven confusing when trying to add new people to projects/accounts.
  • There is no user support, which is a huge issue.
If you need a basic data warehouse with some common integrations that are not expensive, Google BigQuery is a good option. If you're a more advanced user looking for more advanced integrations or functionality outside of the normal database/SQL manipulation options that BigQuery has, it might not be suited to your needs.
December 19, 2022

Google BigQuery is ok!

Tia Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Google Big Query was a contender for our proprietary database to be used as the cloud database to predict scoring models. We use machine learning to predict if someone is going to default on their loan, and use machine learning to determine how much money someone is eligible for. Google Big Query was an option considered for managing this data.
  • Cloud based architecture rather than client based architecture
  • There is a free trial
  • Google product so the support is very good
  • Most organizations use SQL so it is a bit of an adjustment
  • No other major issues - serverless data is great and hard to frown upon
  • Large queries run well in the program
In general i think Google BigQuery is good for organizations with large databases and have a need for a cloudless server, I think it is less appropriate when you're looking to do lead scoring or more front end user needs that require machine learning capabilities. It is more for a developer than a marketer, so it was hard to use it for use cases that marketers needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigQuery as the company's Data Warehousing tool. The transactional information is handled mostly in Firebase and we inform BigQuery of each update or creation event from which we build the status and history tables. In addition, we use it to consolidate data from other external sources, such as Facebook, Analytics, Google Ads, among others.
  • Data Warehousing
  • Sporadic SQL queries without having to manage instances
  • Reporting directly consumed from views
  • A better output data exploration tool
  • Better handling of parquet files
  • An own application with a more comfortable UI than in the browser
An excellent SQL data management tool without having to manage instances or maintain clusters that need to scale. For a startup or organization that wants to implement a data warehouse logic, it is one of the fastest ways to implement, cheapest to maintain and simple to use that I know of in the market.
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