TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Google BigQuery vs. Azure SQL Database

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    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)

    Azure SQL Database

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).

    $0.50

    Per Hour

    Pricing
    Google BigQueryAzure SQL Database
    Editions & Modules
    Standard edition
    $0.04 / slot hour
    Enterprise edition
    $0.06 / slot hour
    Enterprise Plus edition
    $0.10 / slot hour
    2 vCORE
    $0.5044
    Per Hour
    6 vCORE
    $1.5131
    Per Hour
    10 vCORE
    $2.52
    Per Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google BigQueryAzure SQL Database
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google BigQueryAzure SQL Database
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Google BigQuery i would say is better to use than AWS Redshift but not SQL products but this could be due to being more experience in Microsoft and AWS products. It would be really nice if it could use standard SQL server coding rather than having to learn another dialect of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    Google BigQuery integrates seamlessly with Web Analytics data compared to the Azure cloud.
    Google BigQuery integrates natively with different digital media platforms compared to Azure and AWs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Google BigQuery
    PowerBI can connect to GA4 for example but the data processing is more complicated and it takes longer to create dashboards. Azure is great once the data import has been configured but it's not an easy task for small businesses as it is with BigQuery.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google BigQueryAzure SQL Database
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Google BigQuery and Azure SQL Database
    Feature
    Google BigQuery
    8.4
    71 Ratings
    Azure SQL Database
    9.2
    28 Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.017 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Database scalability9.270 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Automated backups8.524 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Database security provisions8.664 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.066 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment8.013 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Google BigQueryAzure SQL Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (71 ratings)
    8.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)