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Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud SQL

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google BigQuery

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle's BigQuery is part of the Google Cloud Platform, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) supporting the querying and rapid analysis of enterprise data.

    $6.25

    per TiB (after the 1st 1 TiB per month, which is free)

    Google Cloud SQL

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud SQL is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) with the capability and functionality of MySQL.

    $0

    per core hour

    Pricing
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud SQL
    Editions & Modules
    Standard edition
    $0.04 / slot hour
    Enterprise edition
    $0.06 / slot hour
    Enterprise Plus edition
    $0.10 / slot hour
    License - Express
    $0
    per core hour
    License - Web
    $0.01134
    per core hour
    Storage - for backups
    $.08
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - for backups
    $.08
    per month per GB
    Storage - HDD storage capacity
    $.09
    per month per GB
    License - Standard
    $0.13
    per core hour
    Storage - SSD storage capacity
    $.17
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - HDD storage capacity
    $.18
    per month per GB
    HA Storage - SSD storage capacity
    $.34
    per month per GB
    License - Enterprise
    $0.47
    per core hour
    Memory
    $5.11
    per month per GB
    HA Memory
    $10.22
    per month per GB
    vCPUs
    $30.15
    per month per vCPU
    HA vCPUs
    $60.30
    per month per vCPU
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud SQL
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing varies with editions, engine, and settings, including how much storage, memory, and CPU you provision. Cloud SQL offers per-second billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud SQL
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google BigQuery
    SingleStore has a much lower query latency compared to BigQuery. Thus, we segregate faster tasks to SingleStore, and use BigQuery has our main database to store all historical data.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    IBM DB2
    AWS RDS
    Azure SQL Database
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    The Google Cloud SQL offering fits into our development stack and was a clean replacement for our MySQL database. If we had been using SQL Server instead, then the offering from Azure would have made more sense. I have used both in the past and both work well, with GCP being …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    DigitalOcean Managed database is relatively less costly compared to Google Cloud SQL database.

    Google Cloud SQL service is well integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services such as IAM which enables fine grain access to team members.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    Kind of similar features provided against RDS. Used this because of transactional db
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud SQL
    BigQuery is a great analytical database and is generally our first choice for large analytical workloads. While its performance and throughput far outperforms Google Cloud SQL but it supports a far limited dialets of SQL. Generally a significant rewrite will be needed for …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud SQL
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google BigQuery and Google Cloud SQL
    Feature
    Google BigQuery
    8.4
    71 Ratings
    Google Cloud SQL
    9.3
    24 Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.017 Ratings9.612 Ratings
    Database scalability9.270 Ratings9.524 Ratings
    Automated backups8.524 Ratings9.724 Ratings
    Database security provisions8.664 Ratings9.524 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.066 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment8.013 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud SQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (71 ratings)
    9.5
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)