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Google BigQuery

Overview

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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Popular Features

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  • Database scalability (50)
    8.8
    88%
  • Database security provisions (43)
    8.7
    87%
  • Automated backups (24)
    8.5
    85%
  • Monitoring and metrics (45)
    8.4
    84%

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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

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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 Competitors

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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