BigQuery = Big Win
Updated April 26, 2021
BigQuery = Big Win

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google BigQuery
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.
Pros
- Performance at scale.
Cons
- Console interface is a little clunky.
- Once up and running, we no longer have to worry about scale and managing infrastructure. Instead of spending our time on our analytics and bringing that value to our customers.
We selected BigQuery since we were already making use of many other offerings within the Google Cloud Platform and it made sense to stay within that eco-system. Of course, we made sure it met our needs and was cost-effective, and when it did we didn't seriously consider an alternative from another vendor.
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