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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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Pricing

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Standard edition

$0.04 / slot hour

Cloud

Enterprise edition

$0.06 / slot hour

Cloud

Enterprise Plus edition

$0.10 / slot hour

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloud.google.com/bigquery/prici…

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

8.4
Avg 8.7
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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 Data Intelligence Platform are common alternatives for Google BigQuery.

Reviewers rate Database scalability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Google BigQuery are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Google BigQuery: Slow Learning Curve

Rating: 6 out of 10
February 15, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
1 year of experience
In our organization, Google BigQuery is for storing very large data which is created within seconds. We log each and every event done by any user. We also log data like payment status, order status, and user address details. Basically, all of the information is logged. To sort through it we are using BigQuery as it is fast and provides data to us within miliseconds.
  • It is faster than the product we use for our websites, MySQL.
  • Can query millions of rows within seconds and can give you the data very fast.
Cons
  • Documentation should be detailed. I had a very hard time learning it. My seniors are also facing so many hurdles while using this.
  • No proper flow is mentioned in the docs about how to use this product. We faced so many errors at different stages.
Google BigQuery is well suited for millions of records as you can run a query in milliseconds. It is less appropriate for small scale organizations which are dealing with a smaller amount of data.

Analytics Powerhouse with Advanced Machine Learning features.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 12, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
6 years of experience
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
Cons
  • 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.

Great platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 12, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
1 year of experience
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
Cons
  • 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.

Dive Deeper into your Firebase Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 05, 2019
EL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
1 year of experience
We use Google BigQuery to mine through further data that Firebase doesn't allow us to. It's been extremely scalable and robust for our SQL and backend developers to mine through and get detailed location data on our users so we can find out where our most active cities are in the United States.
  • Scalable.
  • Love that it uses SQL.
  • Low-cost.
  • Easy integration with Firebase.
Cons
  • UI/UX is a bit scary right away.
  • Takes a strong learning curve to get used to.
Suited to any company, small or large (as it's extremely scalable and low cost as it scales), that wants or needs to dive into data to make more data-driven decisions or back up decisions with user data. The team should have someone that is well versed in SQL though, as non-technical team members will be a bit lost.

Google BigQuery is great for integrations!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 24, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
2 years of experience
Our company uses Google BigQuery to sort and track accounting information which is related to business transactions. We use the integrations available through Google BigQuery to directly import this data and sort it for use in our own custom-made tools to manage financing data in our company. Google BigQuery's seamless integration with the Google Workspace platform allows us to access this data across multiple platforms and filter and sort data in meaningful ways.
  • Data Query
  • Active Database Management
  • Integration with other Programs
Cons
  • Navigation of side panel can be tedious at times
  • Ability to deploy queries more easily across multiple datasets
  • More step-by-step guides (the ones they have are great)
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.
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