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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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  • Monitoring and metrics (48)
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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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  • 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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
  • 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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
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 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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
Vetted Review
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 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 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Richard Atkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Data warehousing. Streaming and batch ingest of files and APIs. Implementing business logic, combining data from different sources, reformatting, reporting, and optimization automation
  • Standard SQL
  • Scale
  • RDBMS-like features
  • Python library support
  • Reliability
  • Python library authentication simplification
  • multi-transaction ACID compliance
Well; data warehousing transformation flexible ingestion
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Used to deploy this solutioning to the client by shifting away from traditional data warehouse to cloud data warehouse. It resolves the issue of transparency in terms of payment per month, utilization and on how to allow user level access to different folders. It also allows for full integration with other Google Cloud Platform's components like Compute Engine and PubSub.
  • Transparency in terms of cost
  • Utilisation of the data warehouse and suggestion on the sizes
  • Easy to use and integration with other components
  • UiUX features can be improved further in terms of navigating from one folder to another
I would say that Google BigQuery are well suited for all scenarios, be it small scale projects or big projects where you have to maintain a huge chunk of data, you will find good budget to go with it. Easy to use for someone who is not well versed with cloud platform too.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Big Query is used by product and services department at my organization. It is used to maintain the various services like bookstore, market place, recreation etc. It is used to maintain the information about inventory, the various vendors and product details. Since it is serverless and can handle large datasets it gives us quick results , work with real time data and helps to handle transactional data.
  • Google BigQuery is column based, therefore it has high speed and easily accessible.
  • As I work with inventory related data, it gives me real time updates which helps to resolve many blocks which could cause problems if delayed.
  • Being serverless, it is easy to handle large size data.
  • Google BigQuery charge according to the quality of the code. So if it is long and lengthy and not the most efficient it can be costly.
  • The UI/UX is little difficult to use at the beginning on a small screen because of the layout.
Google BigQuery is suitable for scenarios where the dataset is large and needs to be analyzed based on real time data. Google BigQuer has been very useful when I was working on the inventory data for the bookstore. At the beginning of semester there was always high demand for school materials, this high demand caused a steady decline in the inventory. Getting updated real time helped us to restock the warehouse beforehand with products in higher demand and thereby led to higher sales.
April 26, 2021

BigQuery = Big Win

Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
BigQuery (along with Airflow) has become a critical part of our technology stack. It is being used to support the ingestion of large amounts of data, manipulating and consolidating that data, and then making it available for other aspects of our technology. The data is at a very large scale and more traditional data stores simply do not have the required performance. For example, some of the same processes if done using a more traditional relational database take hours whereas by utilizing the power of BigQuery take under 1 minute.
  • Performance at scale.
  • Console interface is a little clunky.
If you are dealing with very large data sets that require analysis or other manipulation, BigQuery is usually well suited for the task. It also has some built-in ML capabilities that may be of use to some people. If your data set is not very large and is relational in nature, then a more traditional data store is probably all you need, which can likely be used at a lower cost.
Cameron Gable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BigQuery is used by our Data Science team to do complex queries on large datasets. We have hundreds of terabytes of data and needed a scalable solution that would be able to query our entire biological dataset. BigQuery plays a crucial role in our data lake made up of several Google Cloud data solutions.
  • Highly scalable data warehouse
  • Easily integrated into analytics tools like Data Studio
  • Easy to use with SQL support
  • Can be pricey. There are ways to lower costs but they aren't always straightforward.
We have several hundred terabytes of data and the size of our dataset is exponentially increasing. We needed a data warehouse that is highly scalable. We also serve a user base with several dashboards. BigQuery is great because it integrates nicely with Google Data Studio and other analytics products.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Big Query is currently being used by several departments as well as IT to extract data, blend it with other data and to generate reports based on that data. It's being used to track customer journeys through our site, track different channel traffic conversions and to build out dashboards in Tableau.
  • The computing used by BigQuery is dynamically distributed across compute resources so that you do not have to manage compute clusters.
  • Big Query connects easily with Tableau so that you can analyze billions of rows in seconds using visual analysis tools without writing a single line of code.
  • Although BigQuery machine learning gives you the option to control your geographic data, it only applies to the US, Asia, and Europe. Further expansion of this option to other parts of the world would be beneficial.
  • You don’t need to install, provision, or set up anything with Big Query because it is managed. The downside being that you can’t use it outside of Google Cloud Platform.
I use it primarily in place of Google Analytics in Tableau since we use Tableau for all of weekly and monthly reporting and dashboards. One of the many advantages is being able to access unfiltered data and unaggregated data. This allows us to accurately capture measures such as unique users across many different time frequencies, which you can only do at the yearly level with Google Analytics.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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Google BigQuery is used for data warehouse as a ML analytics engine company wide specifically for consumer behavioral analytics with data streams coming coming out of website as well as internal data sets.
  • It is easy to create and then execute machine learning models in BigQuery using SQL queries using BigQuery ML. Everyone knows SQL.
  • Google BigQuery is fully serverless/cloud based and can be up and running in few hours without need for any specific coding or integration if your data is already is Google Storage.
  • Google BigQuery executes the SQL statements very fast and can can be used for real-time analytics especially if you use Google infrastructure ( GCP).
  • Google BigQuery is great for large data sets where you need a familiar SQL interface but it is still slower than running the same SQL query on RDBMS, assuming your data is mostly structured.
  • It is expensive if you have a lot of data that needs to be queried each time the query is run due to the license metrics used in Google BigQuery.
  • Some of the SQL operations like table join are not optimized and can be slow compared to a full database.
Google BigQuery is very well suited if your data is large and already in Google Cloud/GCP where the data itself is not simple structured data. It is less suited if you have well-defined data sets that may or may not exist in Google Cloud. Google BigQuery is also less suited if you have to analyze the data on a regular basis since the cost of accessing compute and storage adds up considerably.
Tristan Dobbs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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ResellerIncentivized
Google BigQuery has become our data warehouse for the entirety of the systems that we use. It is incredibly efficient and ridiculously powerful, so it allows us to store all relevant data and query it to build dashboards for management and leadership uses. We connected it directly to a data visualisation tool and it has become the most useful part of our business.
  • BigQuery is ridiculously fast and has the ability to query absurdly large data sets to return results immediately.
  • BigQuery allows for storage of a massive amount of data for relatively low prices.
  • Easy to learn. BiqQuery uses SQL-like queries and is easy to transfer your existing skills to use.
  • BigQuery can be dangerous. The charges can rack up quickly if you don't construct your queries properly. Traverse too much data too frequently and you can cost yourself some money.
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BigQuery to manage large datasets we collect in surveys and in regular work projects. Only one person is in charge of it as we are a small company. It works extremely well for my company because it is cloud-based and we do a lot of remote work, so I can access our data and manage things from anywhere. It's a great tool and makes all kinds of data processing and analysis much easier and faster.
  • Cloud storage- always a huge draw for small businesses who may or may not have a bricks-and-mortar office to work from. We can share data easily and access it from anywhere.
  • The user interface is excellent- easy to navigate and conduct whatever specific analyses you want
  • You pay for the data you process, so it's kind of a pay-per-use system. This is awesome for smaller companies who may not need excessive amounts of data processed per month but still need the powerful analytics of a program like BigQuery.
  • Even though the cost is pay-per-use, it's still expensive. This may make the program impractical for companies that won't use it frequently enough or for high-powered processing as it is meant for.
  • Sometimes it is difficult to import data from alternate sources and manage it. The integrations between BQ and other online cloud storage aren't always a smooth transfer.
BigQuery is a huge benefit to companies that work remotely, process large datasets, or need to easily manage those large datasets. It's a powerful tool with cloud storage and the ability to work with large scale datasets. It works well if your monthly usage varies because you can pay for the processing you do- not paying for a minimum that you don't meet. It's not going to be a great option for companies with smaller datasets or who could operate with a less powerful and cheaper system.
Sam Lepak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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.
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