--- title: Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 1223 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Cloud BigQuery works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 1223 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-13' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Data Warehouse Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-warehouse) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,223 ## About Google Cloud BigQuery 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. ## Google Cloud BigQuery Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in BigQuery, allowing them to run complex queries effortlessly. (156 reviews) - Users highlight the **incredible speed** of Google Cloud BigQuery, making data handling efficient and user-friendly. (143 reviews) - Users highlight the **fast querying capabilities** of Google Cloud BigQuery, making data analysis efficient and effortless. (120 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** of BigQuery with other Google Cloud products, enhancing their analytics capabilities significantly. (118 reviews) - Users appreciate the **query efficiency** of Google Cloud BigQuery, highlighting its effortless processing of complex data. (114 reviews) - Users appreciate the **scalability** of Google Cloud BigQuery, efficiently handling large datasets and providing fast performance. (112 reviews) - Easy Integrations (99 reviews) - Large Datasets (96 reviews) - Efficiency Improvement (85 reviews) - Performance (85 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that the **cost can escalate quickly** with Google Cloud BigQuery if not carefully monitored. (127 reviews) - Users struggle with **query issues** in BigQuery, facing challenges in cost management and optimization of queries. (78 reviews) - Users express concerns over **cost issues** , particularly due to high expenses from poorly optimized queries. (63 reviews) - Users find **cost management challenging** due to high fees for poorly optimized queries and small dataset limitations. (60 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve** for advanced features in Google Cloud BigQuery challenging, contributing to billing misunderstandings. (54 reviews) - Expensive Queries (53 reviews) - Cost Estimation (46 reviews) - Slow Performance (38 reviews) - Slow Queries (33 reviews) - Unclear Pricing (29 reviews) ## Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews ### 1. GeoSpatial Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marko J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Ease of use and the integration into many other product across the gcp ecosystem **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** starting out with it the first time was a bit of a learning curve but that was ok **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Geospatial analsys and visualisation through Earth Engine ### 2. Reviewing Google Cloud BigQuery after extensive use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Poulami S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google cloud BigQuery enables to analyze large amounts of data in just few seconds. I specially liked how it handles large public datasets and give excellent analysis. Also with basic knowledge of sql queries you can manage data across muktiple datasets within the organization. The speed of querying makes it highly valauable. Speed and scalability are most impressive. Easy to use is one of the major factors of using it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The negative point of bigquery is that the support is lacking. It is hard to get a hold of someone when we need support the most. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way it handles large datasets and its predictive analysis. ### 3. It is powerfull **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diogo M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The way it transform quering on unstructured data so easy **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The pricing is realy high. It needs carefull guardrails to be used largelly in small budget companies. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is allowing our company to make data informed decisions. ### 4. BIG Query for the DataAnalytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddharth S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Easy creation for the DB and Table, Nice Query platform and data representations **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Its bit costly, some time you need to clean data to save the cost **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** For my company to Analyze the Data for the inventory ### 5. We are getting started with BigQuery marketplace and we are seeing good Query performance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarang K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Automatic compute selection reduces the burden on a DBA **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** We are small on bigquery and really haven't found any concerns as of now **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us with gathering intel on market to reach out to propective market ### 6. Big Query is amazingly powerful and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** maximus b. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Big query has given our organization a ton of power and speed **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** near realtime capability has been an amazing feature, plus being able to segment the database systems **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for security and data controls. ### 7. One data platform for most of the usecases **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vojtech L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I like stunning performance, which provides to access all the data **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It is needed to know how to do proper cost optimalisation. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** comlpexity of current on-prem platforms and need of their maintenance and their integrations together. ### 8. Serverless and very powerful analytics database on Google Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard Shenghua H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's serverless, there is no admin required to use it. It can be easily scaled to TBs to PBs size data lake and warehouse and has many powerful integrations such as PubSub, Dataflow, BigTable in the Google Cloud Ecosystem. Easy to start with on-demand pricing and later on transition to slots to get more control with cost. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It is not the eaiest to get cost under control when scaling the workload to many teams, the new BigQuery Edition price plan get quite complex and requires organisation to do quite a bit of research in order to understand how to make it work for them to get cost under control **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is probably the most poweful analytics database on earth in distributed data processing (especailly data modelling) and all it requires is SQL to make use of it at massive scale for Analytics & ML use cases. ### 9. BQ review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The fact that it's totally managed. Separated storage and compute. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Slot contention and query performance is hard to debug. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to easily leverage large scale elastic compute resources without needing top understand the underlying tech. ### 10. Big query **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiva G. | Data Scientist/Cloud Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable data warehouse that comes with a built-in query engine. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It is similar to snowflake and snowflake supports multi cloud **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google BigQuery is helping wiht highly scalable data warehouse ### 11. Ease of managing huge datasets using Big query **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep S. | Staff Engineer - FinOps, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Ease of using, to construct the query its pretty simple , just like normal SQL, performance seems to be good **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** A bit expensy if your running the queries to transfer huge datasets **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used bigquery to analyze our GCP billing data, seems to solve the problem ### 12. Great for querying huge datasets, UI has improvements opportunities (genAI should help) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The amount of data that it can handle and how easy it can be to be managed in a large scale company (and scale along the lifecycle of the company without having to move to another product). **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The U.I can be really improved and integrated better with looker so it could be easier to create datavis and other aspects. The genAI roadmap should improve BQ to cover this gaps though. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insights, analytics. ### 13. Big Query **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Big query offers great performance and scalabilty **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Need some more documentation and examples for running ML models on BigQuery **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Google Cloud BigQuery for storing huge amount of data and getting faster retrieval time ### 14. Google Cloud BigQuery makes it easier for Data Analysis. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman S. | Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** > Becuase of google this service, I can easily run queries faster. > Easy Optimisation. > Fully secured becuase It is managed by Google. > Pricing is also in our budget. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** > Complexicity is high. > New User might find difficulty to understand. > Google can increase more UI and User friendly interface for better experience. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** > Now the security is our first priority and Google Cloud BigQuery is our Security provider with better facility and features. > We can easily manage Big Data. > Data Analysis become more easy and fast. ### 15. Good, but expensive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** its a scalable solution, and will serve you in what you need! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** If you don`t be a good architecture, you`ll spend mutch money... Its a solution for who undertandind what do! **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** time to marketing. ### 16. It was fairly new experience for me, I found it useful but learning it took some effort.. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I think it is easy to scale and implement. Transtion and integration with lots of other service was also quite fast. Also had good support from google while using it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Learing it was sometime confusing so i am not sure if i will use it frequently. we have to maintain it perodically for good understanding. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved scalability problem i can use it with huge dataset easily and without performance issues. ### 17. build reporting easy with big query **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** swarup m. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** easy replication and streaming from firebase **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** it requires higher cost on execution multiple queries **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps to process the queries on large dataset from no sql db and easi to integrate with looker. ### 18. Google Cloud Platform Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** As a startup focused on customer identity and financial fraud detection, we immensely like the extensive array of services Google Cloud provides. Its offerings encompass various tools, including AI and machine learning, big data analytics, databases, developer tools, and more. This comprehensive suite empowers us to develop and deploy various applications and solutions to meet our business needs. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** GCP Complexity for Beginners. Their service outages sometimes. Unresponsive cloud console. Some of the missing services like the compressive graph database service. Terrible documentation and support plans. Especially not a beginner friendly. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company specialises in data and AI solutions, explicitly emphasising customer identity, financial fraud detection, KYC verification, and face and fingerprint detection. To tackle these challenges, we harness the power of various Google Cloud services, including BigQuery, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI, and Document AI. By leveraging these vital Google Cloud services, we can effectively address and provide solutions for customer identity, fraud detection, KYC verification, and biometric detection requirements. ### 19. It's powerfully tool yet very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kishor N. | Enterprise Architect / AES-GCP Practice Head, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Its very easy to provision and easy to use with better security control **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Limited on number of queries and may need caching enables **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helping in for major analytics and making business decisions ### 20. its simple and fast **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anoop S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** quick and simple. Easy to manage large data **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** account management is time taking. I tried registering for google cloud and went into issues **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** none specific to write about. It's better than on-prem hadoop ### 21. BigQuery for enterprise data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex Jeyasingh N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The ease of accessing data over cloud and the speed. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Data retirieval, and merge queries gets complex with large data set. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us to achieve better integrations with other google cloud platforms ### 22. Data Engg Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kanchan C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I love the Analytics, Vertex AI integration **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Lack of internal code integration and git dependency and lack of tabke joining in multi region of data. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workimg for sales data and real time analytics. ### 23. BQ mad lit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** how easy it is to use. the query language is very geenric, so no matter what version of SQL you are used to writing youll bve able to use BQ. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Export limits in BQ are really low. Sometime I just want to play with the data in excel. but BQ often doesnt let me export the entire dataset **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BQ is helping me secure our cloud infrastructure. Keeping our cusatomers safe ### 24. Great tool for large datasets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash K. | DL, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Great tool for large datasets and has good scalability **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It still seems like a blackbox with not very cleary defined ACID properties **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability. BigQuery is good at solving problems of large datasets. ### 25. The platform is friendly and easily implementable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjana S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Everything that Big Query has to offer and all the features **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Nothing, i do not dislike anything about it **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is solving poroblems like automated driving and collecting data for this functionality ### 26. Bigquery review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuja g. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Data storage , data processing and cost effective. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** we cant browse the entire query history if we close the session. Only the executed queries are saved. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data storage and cost effective. ### 27. Easy to use and I like the short key command to write repetitive characters across multi line **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christine H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Can see query history and tells you how much byte processed **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Cost too much and users how to optimize their code **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's solving auto scaling based on query complexity and optimization. ### 28. Big Query **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** anusha d. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** the way how its easy to run queries side by side along with creating data set **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** the interface or the color of the console **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are using it as data warehousing ### 29. BigQuery, amazing data warehouse **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Some of the things I like the most about bigquery is the analytics it provides. You can comb through very large amounts of data very quickly and easily. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Something I dont like about BigQuery is the UI. I think it could be designed to be better for the user overall. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BigQuery helps us import data into snowflake where we can then send to tableau for monthly cost analysis ### 30. Best managed cloud warehouse in the industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shweta S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Super easy to learn and fast Very Optimized **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** None, you will just love it ! It surpasses all the expectations **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It greatly helps us cater to our warehouse and analytical needs ### 31. Smashes through data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Large amount of data crunching for scaled operations **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** For brownfield operations still needs a lot of work to access existing repositories on other clouds **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing multiple kinds of data seamlessly ### 32. Google Cloud BigQuery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shefali V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's data storage capabilities other than the quick analytical tasks **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Costs that are increasing regularly. Any cost saving plans would be great! **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BigQuery is solving data integration and storage problems ### 33. bigquery has all the features we need and it is reliable and secure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Judy L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Biquery is reliable, scalble and secure. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** cannot think of anything, am excited about the new features **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** it serves as enterprise datawarehouse and we have all the data in one place ### 34. Overall Product experience and overview on bigquery **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surendar P. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** since I have worked on Bigquery on my migration project from db2 to Bigquery and I like it's interface the most and the inbuilt features which saves lot of time. Also, it comes with lots of inbuilt SQL command where we need not to write complete command. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Nothing as of now I haven't came across any such disadvantages of this product As I am Trully fan of Bigquery and it's services. Just few more improvement on efficiency would be great. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is much more faster and efficient as compared to other database tools like db2. And it is more reliable and is effective to handle complex and large workloads. ### 35. Bigquery is preprocessing champion and large data storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karan G. | AI/ML Technical Product Manager , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Data storage and pre processing, it let us store data in it for preprocessing and later used for online inferencing. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Though big query is very fast but its expensive and UI gets confusing at times for me **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** For larger ML projects, it helps us store the data and later perform preprocessing things like one hot encoding in it, its very fast and does the job quickly for peta size data. It also helps us store the data which later gets used for pipelines and inferencing ### 36. BigQuery's Limitation Is My Ability To Use It **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** They keep cramming features into it, and performance keeps scaling. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google rolls out updates, and it's hard to keep track of it all. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise platform reporting. And now AI insights. ### 37. BigQuery Review for eCommerce **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** BigQuery has a large number of native integrations with the Google tech stack as well as some other non Gooogle tech. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The UI is less friendly than some other SQL tools I have used in the past. Specifically, it's frustrating that you can't reorganize BigQuery tabs. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to seting up our BigQuery project, our business had very silo'd datasets that rarely, if ever, communicated with each other. ### 38. BQ ia fast and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nithish Reddy Y. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** BQ ML, and Query Performance. IAM restructions **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Pricing lol, pricing is the way to make customers go **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BQ helps build our datawarehouse and further help in analytics and insights ### 39. Asteroids and moving points of light **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danica R. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Ease of bringing online different data sets to create a unified dataset **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Oboarding other users who are not cloud oriented **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** data normalization and rapid access to integrated data sources ### 40. BQ for your business anlaytics need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie w. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** easy to perform data analytics for users **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** expensive when users write a bad query and cause large amount of data **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** data anlytics for users to undersstand the business ### 41. Simpler way to Hyper Scale computing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** San S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Unified platform BQ Studio should be integrated with CICD **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Interface can improve. Column level lineage ML data anomolies **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BQ is our Data ANalytics platform. Advace AI/ML happens here ### 42. Customer Review for Big Query **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hormise O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Cool Way to analytics, Faster Turn Around and Easy for Business to learn **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Slots Burn Money- On Demand Some time is challenging **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modernize Batch Processing and Analytical workloads ### 43. Self Serve data capabilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luisa C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Easy to use and speed up data access cross organization **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Several changes, it makes a bit diffuclt to catch up in all capabilities **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Powering self serve data analytics ### 44. BigQuery is the way to go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pulkit M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Ease of configuration, compatability and functionality **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Its like a black box. we need to know what is going on in background **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** ease of functionality and table creation. ### 45. BigQuery is Data warehouse service which enables data users access their data seemlessly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It is a managed serverless services, does allow team to access data without worring about infrastructure **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Now since Gemini Pro is in market, if it can provide insights about Query optimization to optimize cost and performance. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** After data is loaded in Bigquery the access layer is seemless and high performant and provide much insights on what it is doing for each query under the hood ### 46. Werner Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** werner u. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Just works at scale, with no tweaking needed **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** multi region dr support still coming, but its in progress **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** storing and making big data for risk manangement available ### 47. perfect for data analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kinjal S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's fast - can manage large amounts of data. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Building semantic table/ consumption views . **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is able to process large amount of data with minimum time. ### 48. Great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Super fast replies for large volume queries **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Currently not great for small queries, but this is getting remedied soon **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transforming and doing analysis on large datasets ### 49. Application Development and utilizing Big Query for insights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Huge storage at low cost Integration with other databases **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** High cosst on Querying Big Query connection with externala sources like SAP **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Standardizing data stoirage and analytics ### 50. ship data to BigQuery to get data for dashboards **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** bugra e. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** fast response for big data queries and long running queries **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** it is not installable to onprem instances **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** analyze huge amount data and get the result ## Google Cloud BigQuery Discussions - 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