BigQuery vs Azure Synapse

What is Azure Synapse?

Azure Synapse is an analytics service that helps you bring together Big Data analytics and enterprise data warehousing. It gives the freedom to query data on your own terms, using either provisioned resources or server less on-demand. You can ingest, prepare, serve and manage data for machine learning, and immediate BI needs.

Comparision between BigQuery and Azure Synapse

Highlights

#	Features	Google BigQuery	Azure Synapse
1	G2 Rating
2	Pricing	Query-based pricing.	No upfront costs, No termination fees. Pay only for what you use.
3	Scalability	1-Handles everything. 2-Removes manual scaling.	1-Easy to scale up or down. 2-Automate scalability.
3	Performance	Ability to autoscale. Perform well under load levels.	Averaging the fastest execution time at 2,996 seconds for the entire workload of 103 field test queries.
4	Security	Use AES encryption. Federated user access via Microsoft Active Dictionary. MFA.	Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) helps protect against the threat of malicious activity by encrypting and decrypting your data at rest.
5	Architecture	Takes into account computation and storage.	Synapse SQL leverages a scale-out architecture in order to distribute computational processing of data across multiple nodes.
6	Administration	It is “serverless”. Compute and storage resources are handled automatically.	Database administrators can automate query optimization.
7	Data Protection	Protects through Google Cloud Platform's Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls.	Features are built into the fabric of Azure Synapse, like automated threat detection & always-on data encryption.

Core Competencies

#	Features	Google BigQuery	Azure Synapse
1	Data Integration	Read data using streaming mode or batch mode.	Deeply integrated Apache spark and SQL engine.
2	Data Compression	In parallel, data is compressed before transfer while for CSV and JSON, it loads uncompressed files.	Support page and row compression for row tables and indexes and support column store and column store archival compression for couumnstore table and indexes.
3	Data Quality	Advanced data quality with SQL.	Better analytics at scale.
4	Built-In Data Analytics	Fully manages enterprise data for large scale data analytics.	Limitless 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 or provisioned resources—at scale.
5	In Database Machine Learning	Bigquery ML lets you create and execute machine learning models using SQL queries.	Build a predictive machine learning model based on data stored in Azure Synapse. Data acquisition and understanding.
6	Data Lake Analytics	Uses Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage access to resources and analyze data.	Single service for all workloads when processing, managing and serving data for immediate business intelligence and data predication needs.

Integration

#	Features	Google BigQuery	Azure Synapse
1	AI/ML Integration	Use bigquery ML to evaluate ML models.	Complete your end to end analytics solution with deep integration of Azure Machine Learning and Power BI.
2	BI Tool Integration	BI is responsible for (RLS) Row Level Security and applying user permissions.	Integrated AI/BI.
3	Data Lake Integration	Data like API systems use Google Cloud composer to schedule Bigquery Processing.	Files are read in Data Lake in Parquet format, which achieves a much higher performance improving Polybase execution over 13x.
4	Cloud	Multicloud analytic solution. It is Google Cloud fully managed warehouse.	Cloud-native, distributed SQL processing engine.

Sharing

#	Features	Google BigQuery	Azure Synapse
1	Sharing	Securely access and share analytical insights in a few clicks.	Provides full visibility in your data sharing relationships. Share and receive data in any format to or from Azure Synapse Analytics.
2	Data Security	Security model based on Google Clouds. IAM capability. Column level security.	Secure, Monitor and Manage your data and analytics solution with a wide range of industry-leading security and compliance features.
3	Data Governance	Using google cloud that allows customers to abide by GDPR , CCTA and over regulations.	Offers cloud governance capabilities to keep your company compliant with regulations and help your developers deliver software faster.
4	Data Storage	Nearline storage.	Good fit for a data warehouse with a small data size and low volume data loads.
5	Backup and Recovery	Automatically backed up.	Automatically backed up.

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