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BigQuery vs Oracle Database Appliance comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.9
BigQuery offers improved performance, cost savings, and intuitive features, with some users reporting up to 75% cost reductions.
Sentiment score
5.4
Oracle Database Appliance offers a strong ROI, superior support, and ease of deployment, though business impact varies by organization.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Customers find Google BigQuery support effective but sometimes limited, relying on documentation, forums, and expert assistance for issues.
Sentiment score
6.1
Oracle Database Appliance support is knowledgeable, but users experience mixed response times and varying first-level support quality.
I have been self-taught and I have been able to handle all my problems alone.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
rating the customer support at ten points out of ten
Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch
In the past one and a half years that I have been running with BigQuery, I have not needed to raise any technical support with BigQuery or with Google.
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I would rate Oracle support nine or ten out of ten because you can always open a ticket and describe any problems, and the feedback is very quick.
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
BigQuery offers excellent scalability and efficiency, supporting vast data seamlessly, though cost and integration challenges may arise.
Sentiment score
6.5
Oracle Database Appliance is scalable, best for SMEs, but has limits, especially on-premises, with higher costs for scaling.
It is a 10 out of 10 in terms of scalability.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
We have not seen problems with scaling.
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The scalability is definitely good because we are migrating to the cloud since the computers on the premises or the big database we need are no longer enough.
Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
All enterprise-grade analytics tools allow rapid scaling, making our business more competitive.
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
BigQuery is stable and reliable, with efficient data handling, few bugs, and strong support, despite occasional slow queries.
Sentiment score
7.6
Oracle Database Appliance is highly stable and reliable, with minor setup glitches easily resolved and excellent user ratings.
In the past one and a half years that I have been running with BigQuery, I have not needed to raise any technical support with BigQuery or with Google.
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Appliance is stable and scalable.
ETL Developer at DiLytics Technologies Private Limited
 

Room For Improvement

BigQuery struggles with cost, accessibility, scalability, and lacks data residency, needing better integration, performance, and machine learning features.
Oracle Database Appliance needs enhancements in scalability, support, cost, integration, automation, user interface, performance, and virtualization features.
BigQuery is already integrating Gemini AI into the data extraction process directly in order to reduce costs.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Troubleshooting requires opening each pipeline individually, which is time-consuming.
Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch
In general, if I know SQL and start playing around, it will start making sense.
Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
There is room for improvement in better integration with third-party tools, such as Power BI or Redshift.
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Currently, Oracle Database Appliance is good with no room for improvement.
ETL Developer at DiLytics Technologies Private Limited
For the cloud version, there could be better storage options or more storage for lower prices.
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
 

Setup Cost

BigQuery uses a pay-as-you-go model, balancing affordability with strategic expense management for data storage and query execution.
Oracle Database Appliance pricing is divisive, viewed as either reasonable for features or expensive, especially long-term.
Being able to optimize the queries to data is critical. Otherwise, you could spend a fortune.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
The price is perceived as expensive, rated at eight out of ten in terms of costliness.
Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch
I am satisfied with the price for Oracle Database Appliance.
ETL Developer at DiLytics Technologies Private Limited
Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

BigQuery provides scalable, serverless data processing with fast query capabilities, seamless GCP integration, SQL support, and competitive pricing.
Oracle Database Appliance offers quick deployment, high scalability, simplified management, virtualization, pay-as-you-grow licensing, and enhanced performance for users.
It is really fast because it can process millions of rows in just a matter of one or two seconds.
Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
BigQuery processes a substantial amount of data, whether in gigabytes or terabytes, swiftly producing desired data within one or two minutes.
Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch
Google platform in general has been quite stable, and we do not see that many outages at resource level or at overall zonal level.
Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is the ease of dashboarding and ease of reporting.
Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion.
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
The flexibility of deploying Oracle Database Appliance both on-premises and on cloud may help me address my organization's evolving business needs.
ETL Developer at DiLytics Technologies Private Limited
 

Categories and Ranking

BigQuery
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (3rd)
Oracle Database Appliance
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

Mikah Sellers - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal at Sgt Suds
Has supported detailed policy and education analysis with low-code data exploration
I do not use AWS as my main cloud provider within the company and am not currently using it with AWS. My company did not buy it through the AWS Marketplace as I'm the founder of the company. I do not use BigQuery's integration with Google Analytics for custom behavior analysis. I have not utilized the geospatial analysis capabilities with BigQuery as I'm doing mostly human capital work, so geospatial wouldn't make sense. I would rate their service on a scale of one to 10 for Google as ten. I would rate BigQuery as nine out of 10. My experience with the pricing for BigQuery was through a grant from Google. Their pricing is fairly priced and pretty comparable to Microsoft's offering. I haven't had direct experience, but I did look at the pricing of the Microsoft offering and it's pretty similar. I do not deal with Google AI tools such as Vertex.
Rubens Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel
Automated provisioning simplifies deployment and integration
The Oracle Database Appliance is customizable and has excellent features.I don't have any problems with Oracle Database Appliance because this product is very automated, with scheduler and automatic processes throughout. You can make small inferences and changes for creating all the specific modifications. The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion. The Oracle Database Appliance has integration in OCI Cloud. The same services simplify all the manager work regarding backups, configuration, resizing disks, and other services. Deploying the Oracle Database Appliance both on-premises and in the cloud offers the same simplification. You simply input your database name and specify memory quantity, CPU quantity, and database size. The process is identical for both on-premises and cloud deployments. The flexibility of Oracle Database Appliance has helped grow business needs for many customers. Using the Oracle Database Appliance has positively impacted my organization because I can deliver it much more comfortably. Creating a database involves many processes, but with this solution, you just input the name and configure the network and other parameters. It is very similar to RDS in AWS services, where you specify the name, choose the engine, indicate parameter groups, VPC, subnet groups, and proceed. Both Oracle Database Appliance and RDS have greatly simplified the work.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Media Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigQuery?
I believe the cost of BigQuery is competitive versus the alternatives in the market, but it can become expensive if the tool is not used properly. It is on a per-consumption basis, the billing, so ...
What needs improvement with BigQuery?
With what I have seen in BigQuery, I had some response times problems, but then it is an analytical database and not a transactional database, so it comes with eventual consistency. I cannot have e...
What is your primary use case for BigQuery?
We are mostly dealing with Google solutions such as BigQuery, NoSQL, SQL analytical database, secrets manager, and most of the serverless infrastructure as well, databases. I run SQL queries on Big...
What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?
Currently, Oracle Database Appliance is good with no room for improvement.In future updates of Oracle Database Appliance, I would like to see AI implemented since AI is getting more attention.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Database Appliance?
Oracle Database Appliance is used to load data from the source, which is Oracle Database, to a target database. I benefit from using Oracle Database Appliance, and there is cost saving.
 

Also Known As

BQ
X5-2
 

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Sample Customers

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LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
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