G2 Vendor Directory

Google Cloud BigQuery vs. Apache Parquet

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

MetricGoogle Cloud BigQuery

by Google

Apache Parquet

by The Apache Software Foundation

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count1,22327
Ease of use8.98.1
Ease of setup8.97.6
Quality of support8.68.3
Meets requirements9.08.7
NPS67.74475546.153846
Small Business27.7%29.6%
Mid-Market34.3%48.1%
Enterprise38.1%22.2%
Total page views5,95070
Total LLM citations27,00749

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

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