--- title: Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews meta_title: 'Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 1224 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: 1224 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-11' 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:** 1,224 ## 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. User-Friendly Data Warehousing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anilkumar R. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google Cloud BigQuery excels in providing scalable, fast, cost-effective, and fully managed data warehousing with seamless integration and advanced analytics capabilities. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** managing complex queries and cost optimisations **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use for large data for processing and ### 2. BigQuery process very fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bismar E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Temporary functions are the best ever feature **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Safe cast should be easier to implement and I would like to UNNEST OBJECTS too. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It process very fast, So users do not wait a lot to see final results and it has scheduled queries that give us a change to execute queries in periods of time ### 3. incredibly fast, easy to use, it just works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** very efficient, get results quickly, easy to built out new projects and update exisitng ones **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** lack of native dark mode, oftimes not intuitive **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Steak and seafood production typically doens't have the most powerful resources at their disposal. BQ allows us to perform advanced analytics we would historically only be able to do in excel ### 4. Best Cloud Provider **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravindra J. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** As it is Google's product, we can trust this product. I have seen many other cloud providers but as compared to those it is better. The main thing which I likedabout it is there are lot of resources available if you need. We used it for deployment which worked really great **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The only thing I dont like is to provide the financial information like when we sign up we need to provide the credit card details and I am bit against it as there are lot of intruders out there who are waiting for this. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** We did a bunch of migrations and during data analysis, we had to query huge tables which used to take lot of time. But, with Google cloud as it is scalable and flexible we were able to cut down the time and the cost. SO, it really helped in those areas in our compaby ### 5. Big query review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sahil W. | US IT Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google BigQuery is a great analytic tool and it's very easy to use. It runs smoothly and the queries are also runs very good. It's integration process is superb. This software helps to implement data in a simple and easy way. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's user interface can be improved and there is no desktop app for this software. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Bigquery solves the data traditional warehouses by providing scalable platform. It offers real time flexibility and ease of use and also solves the issues like concurrent query performance ### 6. using bigquery for ETL **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay Kumar S. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** 1. Easy to use 2. Query execution time is faster than other 3. Can create Tables using GCS data. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** 1.) There is no separate refresh option for searched tables 2.) Pricing **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to accessible data ### 7. BQ review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudhakar P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** its peta-byte scale query of json is good. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** its query speed for small data sets can be improved **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps us analyze large amount of data where the shape of the data is not know prior to ingest. this allows us to report on all data w/o having too much upfront design ### 8. Phenomenal Analytics Tool for Data Analysts & Great serverless tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kritabh K. | Packaged App Development Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's Scalability and performance is great.Analyzing large datasets of any size is quick and easy. User interface is intuitive and easy to navigate.It simplifies data integration process that is cost effective as well. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Debugging tool does not help a lot finding the problems.specifically when making complex SQL queries.Editing columns after making a table is also a handful and not easy thus have to delete columns **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are no constraints on the cardinality of your data.It is essential to use GA4 with BigQuery for websites with minimal traffic.it provides solutions to meet your demands in machine learning, storage, analytics, big data, and application development. ### 9. BigQuery rocks! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff O. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It scales incredibly, is fast and has a ton of tooling built around it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Your marketing makes many people think that BQ can be an application database and that pattern is tough to fix after being used that way for too long. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to scale without replicating data is amazing. ### 10. Easiest SQL workbench **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** BigQuery BI Engine has to be my favorite feature to optimize data analysis. I also like BigQuery ML as a feature, since it has given me great access to learning ML. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Not great for live databases and query runs for far too long **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work for a team under YouTube and have to work using Google data platforms. GC BigQuery is my SQL go to and it is incredibly helpful. ### 11. Google Bigquery usability and query execution speed **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google BiQuery is easy to use and schedules queries. Execution is very fast. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google BigQuery does not have any such dislikes **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google BigQuery can store data at petabytes scale and processing it very efficiently. ### 12. Google Cloud is a robust tool for Retail and Enterprise Industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prateek S. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I really like the scalability of Google cloud , It helps to to handling heavy workload. A fully managed data warehouse helps to analysing the large datasets using the Big Query Technology . As now Machine Learning is in trend so Google Cloud also inbuilt feature of Machine Learning Technique to help in the growth of our organisation using ML Algos. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** There is nothing that I don't like , but still its not for those user who are less intrested in Tech cause its need a deeper knowledge to understand the Google Cloud Platform. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Google Cloud as a Cloud Computing which helps to solve our key business challange of Big Data. We can also stores the million of rows from different OLTP Platforms in a single data warehouse which help to do Online Analytical Processing using SQL , Power BI and other BI Tools ### 13. Streaming analytics data from Firebase applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Getting started is extremely easy. There is little/no provisioning required. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Returning the most recent version of a record can be difficult when the data is embedded in JSON **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BigQuery works really well as a Data Warehouse to ensure that all data (and subsequent changes) are streamed, stored and available to analyse. ### 14. Overall, a good platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** A very powerful cloud data warehouse. Flexible pricing: pay per GB processed and flat rate options. Easily integrates with GCP infrastructure. Streaming data loads. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Complicated resource management. Compute allocation time overhead makes it hard tu use with real time user facing interfaces. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage of large data sets with fast query ability. ### 15. fully managed DWH service is amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Norifumi O. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Fully managed service. I donot need to spent time to system operations. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I think it is useful if BigQuery console show actual cost for query. some data analysts run very big query. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BigQuery and Looker Studio are very helpful. I made web-app dashboard and send report at every 1:00 pm. ### 16. Daily Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yulis S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Big query is user friendly, especially for new/non-tech users. Big query also provide great features to simpify users writing process. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Some formats are different from other SQL language. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big query plays data lake role in our organization and provides a great place to store the temparary data for reporting purpose. ### 17. Reliable Data Warehouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vipin P. | Sr. Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Users don't need to worry about infrastructure provisioning, scaling, or maintenance. It handles massive datasets efficiently. It integrates well with other Google Cloud services. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It can become expensive for organizations with large datasets or frequent, complex queries. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization is often struggle to maintain and manage their data warehouses effectively. Google Cloud BigQuery provides a fully managed, cloud-based data warehouse solution. ### 18. Google BigQuery - Scales tremendously **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Bigquery is fast and efficient and is able to accommodate complex and huge data processing easily **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Somewhat limited in clean room capabilities. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to manage as its fully serverless. Minimal maintenance required. Started supporting complex data types like json etc as well now., so no need of heavy ETL. ### 19. I have used big query and it is very easy to use for beginners. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aneeb A. | Jr. Machine Learning Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The best thing I like about it is its user interface which is easy to use and the open-source datasets on it. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I didn't find any thing to dislike on Big Query. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to analyze big data about my business ### 20. Alternative for many data scientist. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin G. | Junior engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It help me to complete my data science Course.and it help me as it has good interface **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The time of getting an output is very much. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved my problem with debugging. ### 21. Scaleable, flexible, AI/ML supported **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drew W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Integration of AI/ML accelerators and tools through VertexAI, Python, and now Jupyter notebooks **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Can be difficult for newer users (not familiar with SQL or python) to use, and natural language based search could be useful **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage and analysis of petabtye scale data for cyber security, providing real-time alerting capabilities. ### 22. it is a powerful data platform which could handle massive of data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** walaya m. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** fast and saving time and even more amazing with Gemini **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I think the UI could be improve for more friendly **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** To move from traditional data base since the data we have right now in business is not only financial transaction but logging of each footprint of the customer ### 23. Serverless solution, good for admin costs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It offers a serverless solution which may reduce your administrative burden. Good security as it encrypts data during transfer and at rest. It supports SQL syntax, you need not learn a new language to write queries. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** There are quotas to query execution and data ingestion. So that can pose a hurdle to analyses. Further, as the platform is most compatible with google cloud platform ecosystem, integrating it with other software ecosystems and data migration can prove tedious. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps process data at volume and at speed. Easy integration with other Google cloud software. Also reduces administrative costs as I don't have to manage the data insfrastructere. The robust security infrastructure helps secure customer data. ### 24. Google SQL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google bigquery is equal to SQL that we use previously. Standard SQL code working so very less learning for those who are into SQL Development. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Some SQL statements are not recognised here and we need to find other ways to get that done. eg - OUTER APPLY **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main problem is of performance. In other database we need to create and manage indexes while here no need of creating/managing indexes. ### 25. user friendly and easy to implement queries **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Visha W. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Tips and Tricks on the portal, the portal query processing and error correction is fast going forward need more integration with more languages and data types. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Color pallet and themes for SQL queries. New implemention of SQL pallete **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving language translation and synergy between Japanese and Chinese Languages. ### 26. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan H. | Director of IT Infrastructure, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Integration into our other systems is critical for funcctionality and this does it great **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Nothing stands out as a dislike. Obviously having easier user interface is something asked for by users, but that's a vague request that you'll never avoid. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data warehousing with intergrationa cross out GCP stack ### 27. BigQuery has helped our teams create dashboards that help us understand consumption patterns on GCP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's very versatile allowing for a user to create different type of dahsboards. I mainly use it for that purpose and it fits my needs perfectly. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Honestly, I don't run into many downsides with BigQuery **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps collect data for our internal dahsbaords to evaluate GCP performance ### 28. Great! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Easy to use. Realiable in analyzing big datasets. Quick set up. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Not a best fit for small datasets. Customizability is limited **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Training and deploying ML models ### 29. The best Analytic database in the industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bao L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** literally no down time, quick to set up and integrate easily to other products **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** nothing to complain, Google Cloud Big Query saves us a lot of time to spin up database that supports our analytics needs. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** setting up database on the cloud to be accessible everywhere! ### 30. BigQuery unlocks Big Data insights in short order **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** BigQuery scales quickly, and I rarely have to worry about a query completing too slowly **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Foreign key relationships are not well represented in the UI. Primary keys are currently unenforced, and those would be extraordinarily helpful. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** BigQuery allows me to perform ELT pipelines at scale. ### 31. Over all very good... we have found it can be expensive. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Troy C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Scalabilbility and performance. Find it to be very fast for the amount of data we store. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Cost. Our use so far has proven to be quite costly. That's our current reason for not using it more. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serves as our data backup and event change tracking service. ### 32. useful but bulky **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anushka M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** - can process large amount of data fairly easy - high interoperability with data and connectors - easy query language **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** - some queries are very bulky and they timeout, how to optimise them **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping me parse through large amounts of data easily, get logging insights ### 33. BigQuery - Efficient and Reliable Data Warehouse **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek Y. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google Cloud BigQuery is very reliable and efficient when it comes to finish any project without any hustle. Also best part of BigQery is that we can perform unlimited project in one go and it is having best database management system. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Due to running of n number of projects simultaneously it takes time to run and analysis the query, sometimes start lagging. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves a lot of time by running various query at the same time in different different project simultaneously. ### 34. Takes in all of our data in to a centralized location easy for our customers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Flexibility and ability to scale with our data and not have to manage mulitple accesses to individual apps **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** cost cost cost cost :) we want to be able to scale in easy ways globally to our users **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single sourc eor access of database information ### 35. Big Benefits **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The flexibility it provides of being able to handle structured and un structured data. The speed of ingestion accelerates client benefits. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Nothing, it is so flexible and removes the need for bespoke warehouses, lakes or any other adjective! **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integtration of disparate data streams. ### 36. The Query part and insighful part has been really helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rishav S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Query insightful is great Partition feature and support with other data pipelines is really cool **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** not really did not find much It is all good **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have got a very good view over our data and it is helpful to generate good insights ### 37. Easy to Learn and Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priya S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** BigQuery is SQL based. It can handle large amounts of data to efficiently process them **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** I think BigQuery needs more visual components to differentiate between raw and processed data. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google Cloud BigQuery is place to store all different data source into one cohesive place. ### 38. Fabulous Serverless Google Cloud BigQuery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kashish J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Google Cloud Big Query Provides theUnique interface for all users and provide various coding expertise and it also provide flexibility and there is some tool like pick a right feature tool which is used in SQL Queries and Scalibiltyi is very seemless. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Many of time it got confusy or messy and it is difficult to use many time and it is expensive. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to our organization to Data warehousingand do very good implementation and we can easily manage the Statistics and cover most of the thigs which we wnt. ### 39. Easy Control of Your Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The upside is all of the great support we have been given as we moved over. The customer contact and support is top notch! **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** We have just moved over and we have an implementation team that is holding our hand, so I hav e not had any question not answered yet - so no downside. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the past we had too much data and our provider was not supporting us in how we could better store and access that data. ### 40. Great experience working with Google to implement Google BigQuery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** We like the fact that BigQuery is a structured database that is readily interpretable and easy to stream data into. We have used it successfully for multiple terrabytes of data storage. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** There are costs associated with using BigQuery and you have to be careful how you structure and organize your data to make sure it is optimized for reduced cost. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our data was locked in a difficult file format that wasn't accessible to users. BigQuery helps open the data. ### 41. I prefer BQ and would recommend it for large scale number processing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lester d. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** scalable, fast and able to do processing that our on prem would not be able to do **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** its important to keep an eye on costs. queries can be very expensive **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to complete large, complicted calculations in no time ### 42. Finest ans Top cloud data warehouse in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Big query is based on serverless architecture in nature. Which is one the benefits in terms operating cost and it designed to scale massively to handle large amount of data and even though performance is unmatched **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** As far as I used I don't see any drawback in bigquery **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling large amount of data is hard and investment to the resource to make them functional is hard, big query makes this easy in terms of performance and cost management ### 43. Game Changer! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Bigquery allows us to analyze and compute huge datasets at scale without needing to provision hardware/resources. Extremely fast and reliable. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Biggest possible downside also comes from it's strength - it can crunch large datasets quickly. If queries are written ineffeciently with other datasets you'll know instantly due to the poor performance. Bigquery is so quick you may not know you are racking up your bill. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to analyze and pre-compute large datasets to power a web based dashboard. ### 44. The project utilized Big Query and the results were seamless and actionable. Great experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Seamless way to take data and produce actionable direct results **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Several steps to allow for enterprise access - costly **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** The project we specifically used Big Query for recently was producing actionable personalized directed curated marketing messages to specific groups of people ### 45. BigQuery Review by Data Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranil S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Speed, Processing power, Integeration with VertexAI (& now Gemini) **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Materialized Views do not allow LEFT JOIN **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is making it easier for our organization to build a Looker SaaS analytics tool using BigQuery as data warehouse due to its high performance ### 46. fastest Query time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BURAK Y. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Data migration cost is too low and performance is high. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** We want a limitation for cost, but we can't. For example, I want to open a barbecue for all colleagues in the company, but I can't manage the costs. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** we can run complex queries quickly ### 47. Successful product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Extreamly functional database that has hooks into all modern services that are critical for business. **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Hooks to Looker are very easy, but developing inside of Looker from BQ is very complex. **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to handle our database that was crippling SQL. ### 48. Excellent multitasking cloud based database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Ability to process large data very quickly and efficiently **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** to be able to pull data direct from other heterogenous databases like postgress, ORacle etc **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its allowing for processing large business data very quickly and effectively for our data warehouse environment ### 49. Performant and can be integrated with many other products **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sergej P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** It's very performant and we don't have any issues either with writing or reading data quickly out of it **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** Documentation for the API can be improved in some places **What problems is Google Cloud BigQuery solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data anaytics and building reports for a large amount of data ### 50. Love BigQuery. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Google Cloud BigQuery?** No deployment, no management, solid feature. Intrages with the entire Google ecosystem **What do you dislike about Google Cloud BigQuery?** The cloud console in general is terrible. Its slow. It hangs. 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