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Google BigQuery

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is Google 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. Use BigQuery to manage all data types across clouds, structured and unstructured, with fine-grained access controls. BigQuery's serverless architecture lets you use SQL queries to analyze your data. You can store and analyze your data within BigQuery or use BigQuery to assess your data where it lives.

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Awards & Recognition

Google BigQuery won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

10 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

8 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

10 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021

Google BigQuery Ratings

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Google BigQuery?

2% Negative

4% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Enables Productivity
Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Data Integration

Data Management

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Real Time Capabilities

Analytics and Reporting

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Google BigQuery Reviews

Jesse S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Efficient, easy to use, but can get pricey…

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Google BigQuery from other similar products?

BigQuery’s user interface is a lot more intuitive than some competitor’s offerings (especially when compared to AWS Athena for example). I also find BigQuery fits into our larger data ecosystem quite seamlessly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease at which we’re able to effectively scale our analytics resources in conjunction with usage in other products (ie Looker). We find that using BigQuery with Looker gives us a range of benefits that support our business growth.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes I find the rate of product innovation to be a little sluggish. However, BI engine was recently moved into GA which is a feature that can enable great performance benefits when used correctly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Ensure that you think about your data needs in their entirety before going ahead with BigQuery (or any competitor for that matter). BigQuery serves our use case extremely well, but it may not suit the needs of other use cases as well.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Cons

Less Generous

Raphael G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

Cheap and easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google BigQuery from other similar products?

The user interface is modern, and it supports both standard and legacy sql.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Free quotas and you can request an increase. You only pay if you want to store data, so using big query is basically free. What this means is that you have the full powers of a modern data warehouse too at your beck and call

What do you dislike most about this product?

Well, I know SQL queries, and most modern Cloud Admins and Cloud Engineers are expected to know this too. So, if you don't have any idea about SQL this might be an issue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if it's sql that will stop you why not look at https://www.w3schools.com/sql/ brush up or even get qwiklabs training and set out on your journey to start using. You won't regret it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Thomas C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

Awesome product, powerful and easy to understand.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Google BigQuery from other similar products?

Efficient and effective product with reliable features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Understandable and easy to adapt to.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don't have anything I dislike with this product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Strongly recommend to buy product.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

Google BigQuery Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Google BigQuery?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Google BigQuery Reviews

Jesse S.

Efficient, easy to use, but can get pricey…

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Raphael G.

Cheap and easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Thomas C.

Awesome product, powerful and easy to understand.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Data Management

Distributed Processing

Data Security

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Real Time Capabilities

Analytics and Reporting

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training