Google BigQuery vs Azure Synapse: What are the differences?

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.; Azure Synapse: Analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. It brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

Google BigQuery can be classified as a tool in the "Big Data as a Service" category, while Azure Synapse is grouped under "Big Data 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 Synapse provides the following key features:

• Complete T-SQL based analytics – Generally Available
• Deeply integrated Apache Spark
• Hybrid data integration