19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Google BigQuery first-hand: 7 endorse it, 2 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“the only big gotcha I encountered was finding... that it's often best minimize partitioning.”
mixed · production · staticautomatic · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated off BigQuery and went from $10k/mo to about $250/mo. And it's faster for both low-latency and big slow queries.”
regret · production · hipadev23 · 2024-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BQ doesn't support enums, so your external connection query has to cast any enum return values”
regret · production · hn_throwaway_99 · 2023-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was rather expensive (but I'd still use it again) last year when we migrated a custom solution to BigQuery.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · KingOfCoders · 2023-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I agree its a really cool tool... we use BigQuery in almost all of the projects I have been on”
endorse · production · anshumankmr · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to BigQuery instead. But the interface kind of sucks.”
mixed · production · GeneralTspoon · 2021-02-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use almost every cloud. ... I love bigquery.”
endorse · production · alexnewman · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GKE is much better than EKS or AKS, IMO; BigQuery is awesome.”
endorse · production · 6 yr · devy · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our architecture became much more powerful & easy to maintain.”
endorse · production · buremba · 2019-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it as our infrastructure for big-data analysis and we get the results at the speed of light.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · tzury · 2017-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BigQuery is incredibly cheap at the storage level, but can be pricey to run queries against large datasets. Personally I am not a fan of paying per-query.”
mixed · production · sturgill · 2017-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's a nice product - no cluster to manage, pretty good apis for getting data in and out of it”
endorse · production · mattbillenstein · 2017-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At streak.com we use BigQuery to analyze our logs... Its been amazingly helpful.”
endorse · production · alooPotato · 2012-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The DW got replaced with bigquery when we started doing more tracking.”
neutral · production · efxhoy · 2026-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you import pandas gbq and pretty much the entire google bq set of libraries is part of the build.”
neutral · production · dxbydt · 2024-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our data scientist built a BigQuery step, a Python step, and then our Javascript engineers grabbing that to do some post-processing”
neutral · production · Nimsical · 2022-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using logs, bigquery, dataflow, and a smattering of other products pretty regularly for the past few years.”
neutral · production · dmitriid · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we built end points in Go which collect data and post it to Bigquery or Redshift.”
neutral · production · InGodsName · 2018-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're doing some stuff with Cassandra and BigQuery for bulk analysis of historical data.”
neutral · production · cheald · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?