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Exasol vs BigQuery

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by Exasol

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Pricing: Exasol Personal is free for a single user; Exasol Enterprise is priced on request after a talk with Exasol's experts.

Exasol is an in-memory analytics database and data warehouse for many concurrent users and AI agents, deployable as SaaS, on premises or in hybrid setups.

3 /18 features Full profile

BigQuery

by Google

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Pricing: Free usage tier of 1 TiB of queries and 10 GiB of storage a month. On-demand queries $6.25 per TiB; editions from $0.04 per slot-hour pay as you go. Storage per GiB.

BigQuery is Google Cloud's serverless data warehouse for SQL analytics, machine learning and streaming data, billed by data scanned or by slot capacity.

18 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Data Warehouses features side-by-side

Feature	Exasol 3/18 features	BigQuery 18/18 features
Independent scaling of storage and compute Compute clusters resized or paused without moving data, and storage billed separately.	No	Yes
Serverless query execution Queries run on capacity the service allocates per query, with no cluster to provision.	No	Yes
Multi-cluster concurrency scaling Extra compute clusters spin up automatically when query queues form and spin down after.	No	Yes
Time travel to prior table states Query or restore a table as it was at any point within a retention window of days.	No	Yes
Zero-copy cloning of databases A full copy of a database or table created instantly by sharing the underlying storage.	No	Yes
Auto-refreshing materialized views Materialized views kept current by the service, incrementally where possible.	No	Yes
Native semi-structured columns JSON, Avro or Parquet loaded into a variant-style column and queried by path.	No	Yes
External tables on data lake files Files in object storage queried in place as tables in open formats.	No	Yes
Open table format interoperability Warehouse tables stored in an open format such as Iceberg that outside engines can read.	No	Yes
Streaming row ingestion into tables Rows inserted continuously from streams or landing files, without scheduled batch loads.	No	Yes
Live data sharing across accounts Tables shared with another account or organization as live reads, without copying data.	No	Yes
Column masking policies Sensitive columns masked dynamically per role at query time.	No	Yes
Row access policies Row-level filters applied per role or user by the warehouse itself.	No	Yes
Automatic query result reuse Repeated identical queries served from a result cache without recomputation.	Yes	Yes
Workload management queues Queries assigned to resource groups with priorities, memory limits and concurrency caps.	Yes	Yes
Compute spend limits and alerts Budgets or resource monitors that alert on, or suspend, compute past a spend threshold.	No	Yes
Cross-region warehouse replication Databases replicated to another region or cloud with failover for disaster recovery.	No	Yes
In-warehouse Python execution Python code runs inside the warehouse as functions or procedures next to the data.	Yes	Yes
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Exasol 3/18 features

Independent scaling of storage and compute: No
Serverless query execution: No
Multi-cluster concurrency scaling: No
Time travel to prior table states: No
Zero-copy cloning of databases: No
Auto-refreshing materialized views: No
Native semi-structured columns: No
External tables on data lake files: No
Open table format interoperability: No
Streaming row ingestion into tables: No
Live data sharing across accounts: No
Column masking policies: No
Row access policies: No
Automatic query result reuse: Yes
Workload management queues: Yes
Compute spend limits and alerts: No
Cross-region warehouse replication: No
In-warehouse Python execution: Yes

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BigQuery 18/18 features

Independent scaling of storage and compute: Yes
Serverless query execution: Yes
Multi-cluster concurrency scaling: Yes
Time travel to prior table states: Yes
Zero-copy cloning of databases: Yes
Auto-refreshing materialized views: Yes
Native semi-structured columns: Yes
External tables on data lake files: Yes
Open table format interoperability: Yes
Streaming row ingestion into tables: Yes
Live data sharing across accounts: Yes
Column masking policies: Yes
Row access policies: Yes
Automatic query result reuse: Yes
Workload management queues: Yes
Compute spend limits and alerts: Yes
Cross-region warehouse replication: Yes
In-warehouse Python execution: Yes

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Pricing

Exasol

Exasol Personal is free for a single user; Exasol Enterprise is priced on request after a talk with Exasol's experts.

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BigQuery

Free usage tier of 1 TiB of queries and 10 GiB of storage a month. On-demand queries $6.25 per TiB; editions from $0.04 per slot-hour pay as you go. Storage per GiB.

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