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Google BigQuery

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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 (53)
    8.8
    88%
  • Database security provisions (46)
    8.7
    87%
  • Automated backups (24)
    8.5
    85%
  • Monitoring and metrics (48)
    8.4
    84%

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Pricing

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Standard edition

$0.04 / slot hour

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Enterprise edition

$0.06 / slot hour

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Enterprise Plus edition

$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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Product Demos

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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Features

Database-as-a-Service

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.

Google BigQuery Video

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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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Google BigQuery is a fantastic tool for exporting and importing data from different programs. As organizations grow and utilize multiple different platforms, the ability to move large datasets between those platforms is incredibly valuable. Users capable of performing database queries can quickly access this data and use it in meaningful ways. However, users that don't understand the limitations of databases within programs that Google BigQuery can export information to will find themselves struggling to utilize it effectively. Many of our users heavily employ spreadsheets for business tracking, but as datasets become larger spreadsheets become cumbersome, and attempting to use spreadsheet formulas on database information does not translate well.
Liz Brandon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Google BigQuery has worked perfectly fine for our needs. It is easy to manager data and make reporting tables available to users throughout the company. We are able to create certified data sources and customize them to include exactly the needed information. Data refreshes fairly quickly do that we can keep all of our reporting up to date. Google BigQuery has enabled greater self service analytics capabilities within my company as now anyone can connect to the same certified data source.
Score 7 out of 10
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Google BigQuery really shines in scenarios requiring real-time analytics on large data streams and predictive analytics with its machine learning integration. Teams have been using it extensively all over.
However, it may not be the best fit for organizations dealing with small datasets because of the higher costs. And also, it might not be the best fit for highly complex data transformations, where simpler or more specialized solutions could be more appropriate.
Rajender Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
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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
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Incentivized
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.
Nir Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
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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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
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
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Verified User
Incentivized
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 6 out of 10
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Incentivized
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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Incentivized
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
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Verified User
Incentivized
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
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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
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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
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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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Incentivized
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
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
- 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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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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Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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