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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 Storage

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Storage is unified object storage for developers and enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud Storage
    Editions & Modules
    Standard edition
    $0.04 / slot hour
    Enterprise edition
    $0.06 / slot hour
    Enterprise Plus edition
    $0.10 / slot hour
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud Storage
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud Storage
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Google BigQuery is cheaper and much faster as compared to both. While as compared to Snowflake , we tested it was faster and cheaper by 30%, that is after Snowflake tweaked their environment, if not for that it would have been 90% cheaper than Snowflake. Redshift is not easy …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Amazon Redshift was a likely alternative we were considering , but it needs to be provisioned on cluster and nodes, which increases infrastructure management, whereas Google BigQuery is serverless, so no infra management :) Also, I remember when comparing them we did found out …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    BigQuery is better at storing and handling large amounts of data than Knime. Knime is locally run and does not have the ability to handle massive databases like BigQuery and importing from multiple sources for multiple teams would be impossible, that is not really the function …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    We liked BQ because the cost of it is only dependent on the amount of data you store (and there are tiers of data access) and how much you search. For us, it is significantly less expensive to run BQ than an equivalent hosted RDBMS. Because most of our data pipelines are …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    BigQuery by far the best solution in all angles compared to other ones: Especially scalability, ease of use, performance and there is no need to manage any cluster of servers. Also it's ABSOLUTELY pay as you go! No one in market currently provide such service that can compete …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Spinning up, provisioning, maintaining and debugging a Hadoop solution can be non-trivial, painful. I'm talking about both GCE based or HDInsight clusters. It requires expertise (+ employee hire, costs). With BigQuery if someone has a good SQL knowledge (and maybe a little …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Google BigQuery is widely used for structured data.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Compared to PostgreSQL and MySQL, Google BigQuery is faster and more scalable for large datasets. It’s serverless, so there’s no need to manage infrastructure. We chose Google BigQuery for its ease of use built-in analytics features
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    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Storage
    The two services are very comparable, but we have many different services that all run on the Google Cloud Platform and therefore Google Cloud Storage made more sense as our storage solution rather than looking to an outside service like S3. Either one of these options would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Storage
    The big difference against other competitors that offer a Cloud storage solution, is the fact that Google Cloud Storage and other Google Cloud Platform products are billed in the local currency. This fact saves a lot of money because in some countries we have to pay for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Storage
    Aside from Google Cloud Storage, we've used AWS S3 and have found the two comparable. In fact, GCS is one of a large number of object storage systems that are compatible with S3 (including DigitalOcean Spaces, IBM Cloud Storage, and Azure Blog Storage). When it comes to these …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Storage
    Google Cloud Storage is really a different application. It does not have the data parsing capabilities and it is simply a cold storage option in our use case. This means it is less flexible and has limited uses, but the uses it does have it, performs very well. There is a very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Storage
    We selected GCS vs. others because we decided to use other Google Cloud services. Since we integrated GCS into our tools, we're still using GCS today, even though we've largely transitioned away from Google Compute services. GCS is still a very solid choice, even if your server …
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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 Storage
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage
    Feature
    Google BigQuery
    8.4
    71 Ratings
    Google Cloud Storage
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability9.270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups8.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions8.664 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.066 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (71 ratings)
    10.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    7.8
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)