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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 9.1.

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

(1-5 of 56)

Great for Interactive Analytics And KPI Reports

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 18, 2015
CC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
1 year of experience
We use BigQuery in our engineering team to do fast analytical queries and generate many reports for the management team. Many of those reports were not possible with our existing data platform because of the time needed to create those reports, and the compute resource required. Google BigQuery solved those problems and enabled our management to access KPI reports in much shorter time.
  • It's capable of scanning billions of records in a couple of seconds. It makes it possible to create hundreds of KPIs in less than an hour.
  • Google BigQuery provides the compute power when you need it. For a startup company, BlueCava cannot afford the massive compute power required for the reports we'd like to create, and BigQuery makes this available.
  • The best part, Google BigQuery is charged per query, and based on the size of data the query scans. No extra cost.
Cons
  • Documentation is not complete, sometimes not clear.
  • Performance is unstable occasionally.
  • Error message not clear.
It is well suited for generating reports quickly or doing interactive analytical queries over a large data set that contains hundreds of millions or billions of rows. The largest table we used in BigQuery has close to 30 billion rows. It is not suited for ETC processes or data pipeline.

Google BigQuery, the big thing

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 06, 2025
JJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
3 years of experience
We have UI survey reporting database in Google BigQuery.
It is meant to give insights of how the users or sales people like the user experience.
We recieve files which finally gets loaded in gcp env.
Querying tables In Google BigQuery gives fast insights with comparatively less time than other cloud dbs.
  • Compatibility with traditional ETL tools
  • Time travel
  • Columnar storage
  • An intuitive UI
Cons
  • Not very Easy Integration with spark
  • Data lineage tool kind feature is not there
  • Orchestration can be better
I feel like Choosing it when we have Streaming data with pub sub playing a big role.
Though streaming analytics can be a lil.challenging when you have real time insights needed fast.

Much suited for micro batches or batch data.
You can create a big data warehouse store history.
Batch is where I would prefer

Easy to integrate to day-to-day business

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 20, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
2 years of experience
We use Google BigQuery mainly to store, manage and analyze our data. Due to our vast amount of sales/production/logistics data we are unable to run deep analysis on excel/Google Sheets without crashing. With this in mind we use it not only to analyze and pull data with SQL queries, but also to use the directly integrated connectors with Google Sheets and Looker Studio.
  • Integrating with other Google Services for detailed analysis
  • Fast and reliable to pull data
  • Backups of data
  • Clear error messages for debugging
Cons
  • Preview of data could be improved
  • Metrics by column could also be added
  • Could be expensive if the queries are not optimized
It is great for any business that uses a google ecosystem due to how they are integrated directly to your everyday tools (drive, sheets, docs, email etc...). It is great for data analysis on a big scale (inside Google BigQuery) or outside (connecting Google BigQuery to a google sheet) for any data analyst or tech related position. But at the same time you have to be careful of how the queries are written as they could end up costing even 10x your budget.

Need a reliable, in-expensive database? BigQuery is here to help!

Rating: 5 out of 10
May 08, 2019
SL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
1 year of experience
Our marketing team and product development team BigQuery. This is my favorite software for storing information in the cloud, I use it both personally and at work and I recommend it because it has allowed me to access my information very quickly, so far it seems to me that security is very good and not I have had problems with this aspect, although it can work very slow when the Internet connection is not very good, it allows to resume file uploads instead of restarting them every time the signal decreases.
  • 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.
Cons
  • One issue with Google Cloud Storage is its price. For one to have that premium Google Cloud Storage, for the purpose of massive storage, he/she must have adequate cash. Otherwise, Google Cloud Storage is a safe and perfect online storage platform.
  • The only thing that can come to mind that would be annoying with this software was that sometimes when trying to share files on the Cloud with coworkers, it would just not share at all, or there would be a massive delay in when I shared them and when they received them. Other than that though, everything is perfect with this.
I recommend this platform for wide range of customers that have not super tight budget for their application hosting but want to stay away from bunch of low-level details of running and maintenance of application infrastructure. Google BigQuery is easy to use and its interface is very nice, it also has a wide range of servers, which makes its services are excellent. This software has allowed me to easily access my files and share them quickly and efficiently, it also allows other activities while loading and downloading files, therefore saving a lot of time compared to other similar applications.

An overview of Google BigQuery

Rating: 7 out of 10
April 22, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google BigQuery
2 years of experience
In our company, we use Google BigQuery to make analyzing data easier and help us make better decisions. It's great because it lets us look at big amounts of data quickly without needing lots of complicated setups. Anyone in our team can use it because it's simple to understand and helps us find important information from our data. We also connect it with other tools we use to make our work smoother. We use it for things like understanding how our team is doing, seeing how people use our products, some teams use it for managing their finances, and keeping track of how well systems are running. All in all, Google BigQuery is really important for us to do our work well.
  • First and foremost - Google BigQuery is great at quickly analyzing large amounts of data, which helps us understand things like customer behavior or product performance without waiting for a long time.
  • It is very easy to use. Anyone in our team can easily ask questions about our data using simple language, like asking ChatGPT a question. This means everyone can find important information from our data without needing to be a data expert.
  • It plays nicely with other tools we use, so we can seamlessly connect it with things like Google Cloud Storage for storing data or Data Studio for creating visual reports. This makes our work smoother and helps us collaborate better across different tasks.
Cons
  • Please expand the availability of documentation, tutorials, and community forums to provide developers with comprehensive support and guidance on using Google BigQuery effectively for their projects.
  • If possible, simplify the pricing model and provide clearer cost breakdowns to help users understand and plan for expenses when using Google BigQuery. Also, some cost reduction is welcome.
  • It still misses the process of importing data into Google BigQuery. Probably, by improving compatibility with different data formats and sources and reducing the complexity of data ingestion workflows, it can be made to work.
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.
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