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Google BigQuery vs Azure HDInsight: What are the differences?

What is Google BigQuery? Analyze terabytes of data in seconds. Run super-fast, SQL-like queries against terabytes of data in seconds, using the processing power of Google's infrastructure Load data with ease. Bulk load your data using Google Cloud Storage or stream it in. Easy access. Access BigQuery by using a browser tool, a command-line tool, or by making calls to the BigQuery REST API with client libraries such as Java, PHP or Python..

What is Azure HDInsight? A cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics. It is a cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics that helps organizations process large amounts of streaming or historical data.

Google BigQuery and Azure HDInsight can be primarily classified as "Big Data as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Google BigQuery are:

  • All behind the scenes- Your queries can execute asynchronously in the background, and can be polled for status.
  • Import data with ease- Bulk load your data using Google Cloud Storage or stream it in bursts of up to 1,000 rows per second.
  • Affordable big data- The first Terabyte of data processed each month is free.

On the other hand, Azure HDInsight provides the following key features:

  • Fully managed
  • Full-spectrum
  • Open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises
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      High Performance
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      Easy to use
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      Fully managed service
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      Cheap Pricing
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      Process hundreds of GB in seconds
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      Big Data
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      Full table scans in seconds, no indexes needed
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      Always on, no per-hour costs
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      Good combination with fluentd
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      Machine learning
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      Easy to manage
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        You can't unit test changes in BQ data
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      What is Azure HDInsight?

      It is a cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics that helps organizations process large amounts of streaming or historical data.

      What is Google BigQuery?

      Run super-fast, SQL-like queries against terabytes of data in seconds, using the processing power of Google's infrastructure. Load data with ease. Bulk load your data using Google Cloud Storage or stream it in. Easy access. Access BigQuery by using a browser tool, a command-line tool, or by making calls to the BigQuery REST API with client libraries such as Java, PHP or Python.

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