G2 Vendor Directory

Apache Parquet vs. Google Cloud BigQuery

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricApache Parquet

by The Apache Software Foundation

Google Cloud BigQuery

by Google

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count271,223
Ease of use8.18.9
Ease of setup7.68.9
Quality of support8.38.6
Meets requirements8.79.0
NPS46.15384667.744755
Small Business29.6%27.7%
Mid-Market48.1%34.3%
Enterprise22.2%38.1%
Total page views705,950
Total LLM citations4927,007

Apache Parquet

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem, regardless of the choice of data processing framework, data model or programming language.

Pros

    Google Cloud BigQuery

    BigQuery is an AI-ready, petabyte-scale, and cost-effective data warehouse that lets you run analytics over vast amounts of data in near real time. Store 10 GiB of data and run up to 1 TiB of queries for free per month.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Speed
    • Integrations
    • Fast Querying
    • Query Efficiency
    • Scalability