BigQuery vs SAP Business Data Cloud comparison

Google and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5, while SAP is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0. Google holds a 7.3% mindshare in CDW, compared to SAP’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of SAP users who would recommend it.

BigQuery

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 15, 2026

BigQuery and SAP Business Data Cloud are key players in the data management sector. User preference typically leans towards BigQuery, notably due to its cost-effectiveness and efficient workload management.

Features: BigQuery is recognized for its scalable serverless architecture, efficient handling of large datasets, and on-demand pricing model that suits dynamic workloads. Its robust data analysis capabilities are a highlight, although it faces challenges with integration due to Google's security model. On the other hand, SAP Business Data Cloud specializes in advanced analytics and planning features, seamlessly integrating with SAP tools, making it highly suitable for businesses operating within SAP ecosystems. The solution is designed to support complex business intelligence tasks effectively.

Room for Improvement: BigQuery users point out the high cost and complexity associated with migration, particularly when managing large data volumes. They also seek improved integration with non-Google systems and better performance. SAP Business Data Cloud, while strong in integration with SAP products, needs enhancements in machine learning capabilities, improved documentation, and a more aggressive pricing model. Users also desire better visualization tools and integration with non-SAP systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BigQuery's deployment is primarily on the public cloud, offering strong support and comprehensive documentation. However, users report occasional delays in support. In contrast, SAP Business Data Cloud offers flexibility across cloud and on-premises deployment, benefiting from SAP ecosystem familiarity, but its customer service is often considered less responsive and more costly.

Pricing and ROI: BigQuery operates on a pay-as-you-go model, delivering low storage costs but potentially high expenses if usage isn't optimized, offering high ROI when shifting from manual handling. SAP Business Data Cloud tends to be more expensive, especially with advanced functionalities, impacting cost but providing value through integration within SAP's suite, offering specific advantages for enterprises already invested in SAP solutions.

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BigQuery vs. SAP Business Data Cloud

June 2026

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

4.9

BigQuery offers improved performance, cost savings, and intuitive features, with some users reporting up to 75% cost reductions.

Sentiment score

5.1

SAP Business Data Cloud boosts ROI by automating reporting, reducing costs, saving time, and enhancing business intelligence significantly.

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We have saved a lot on the number of employees, and implementation time for the projects has reduced significantly since we started using the standard features of SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Once the content is available, then it is a faster go-live with lesser cost in implementation, and that would give an ROI.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

It will definitely reduce the need for more staff to handle this technology.

reviewer2837877

SAP BDC Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.2

Customers find Google BigQuery support effective but sometimes limited, relying on documentation, forums, and expert assistance for issues.

Sentiment score

6.1

SAP Business Data Cloud support is generally responsive and helpful, but delays and insufficient first-level help concern users.

rating the customer support at ten points out of ten

Jitesh Rathod

Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch

I have been self-taught and I have been able to handle all my problems alone.

Luís Silva

Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I would rate their customer service pretty good on a scale of one to 10, as they gave me access to the platform on a grant.

Mikah Sellers

Principal at Sgt Suds

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The technical support is a very well-organized service, with a lot of tools for me as a consultant and for the end user on how to contact SAP support and get issues solved.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

For example, when I provide a set of instructions, they often simply ask me to implement those steps without checking whether they are applicable.

ShantanuSrivastava

Lead Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

In SAP's policy, for the first couple of years, the product team is also part of the support team.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

BigQuery offers excellent scalability and efficiency, supporting vast data seamlessly, though cost and integration challenges may arise.

Sentiment score

7.2

SAP Business Data Cloud offers scalability for all organizations, with flexibility, seamless integration, despite some speed and dimension challenges.

It is a 10 out of 10 in terms of scalability.

Luís Silva

Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

We have not seen problems with scaling.

reviewer2807520

Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The scalability is definitely good because we are migrating to the cloud since the computers on the premises or the big database we need are no longer enough.

JorgeADiaz

Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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The scalability of SAP Business Data Cloud has been strong, as it has handled growth in data volume, user demand, and reporting requirements without significant performance issues.

Niyajuddin Tiwale

Technique at Digitaltrack

SAP Analytics Cloud can be used by a small company, and it can be used by a large corporate.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Since SAP has consolidated everything on one platform, there is ample room to expand as much as needed.

Muhammad Ashar

Sap Data & Analytics Consultant at Dezert Innovation Technology Company

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.3

BigQuery is stable and reliable, with efficient data handling, few bugs, and strong support, despite occasional slow queries.

Sentiment score

7.6

SAP Business Data Cloud is generally stable and reliable, though minor issues exist, especially during updates, with room for improvement.

In the past one and a half years that I have been running with BigQuery, I have not needed to raise any technical support with BigQuery or with Google.

reviewer2807520

Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

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You have a chance to test it on your test tenant in small increments, so it should not break your productive reports and productive environment.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

It has been reliable for reporting, analytics, and data integration activities.

mithun jadhav

Network security engineer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

This really allowed virtual access to data, which means there was no heavy replication of data involved, greatly improving performance.

Yagya Purush

Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

BigQuery struggles with cost, accessibility, scalability, and lacks data residency, needing better integration, performance, and machine learning features.

SAP Business Data Cloud needs cost reduction, better integration, enhanced usability, advanced AI, DevOps, and affordable licenses for wider appeal.

Troubleshooting requires opening each pipeline individually, which is time-consuming.

Jitesh Rathod

Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch

In general, if I know SQL and start playing around, it will start making sense.

JorgeADiaz

Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

BigQuery is already integrating Gemini AI into the data extraction process directly in order to reduce costs.

Luís Silva

Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

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On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

If SAP can come up with innovative options to reduce licensing costs, many customers would incline toward SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

If I compare the cost with SAP competitors, I find that when creating an enterprise data lake, if I don't use SAP Business Data Cloud and make it directly in the hyperscalers, it is pretty much cheaper than doing the same in SAP Business Data Cloud.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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Setup Cost

BigQuery uses a pay-as-you-go model, balancing affordability with strategic expense management for data storage and query execution.

SAP Business Data Cloud's high pricing is offset by comprehensive features, though transparency in cost estimation is lacking.

Being able to optimize the queries to data is critical. Otherwise, you could spend a fortune.

Luís Silva

Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

The price is perceived as expensive, rated at eight out of ten in terms of costliness.

Jitesh Rathod

Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch

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Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

From a planning license perspective, SAC on that side is very expensive if you need developer features.

Norman Ruppert

Director Of Analytics at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

Frankly, pricing, setup cost, and licensing seem a bit high compared to other hyperscalers.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

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Valuable Features

BigQuery provides scalable, serverless data processing with fast query capabilities, seamless GCP integration, SQL support, and competitive pricing.

SAP Business Data Cloud enhances data sharing, integration, real-time analytics, and reduces errors with AI, ML, and governance features.

It is really fast because it can process millions of rows in just a matter of one or two seconds.

JorgeADiaz

Expert Analyst at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

BigQuery processes a substantial amount of data, whether in gigabytes or terabytes, swiftly producing desired data within one or two minutes.

Jitesh Rathod

Sr. Team Lead - IT at InfoStretch

The features I find most valuable in this solution are the ability to run and handle large data sets in a very efficient way with multiple types of data, relational as SQL data.

Luís Silva

Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

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For SuccessFactors and S/4HANA Cloud, there are pre-built reports available which are commonly used by customers.

Bhupesh Akkineni

Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

SAP Business Data Cloud has positively impacted my organization by federating SAP data, which is now available for all to use.

Ninad Mehta

Associate director, SAP technical at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main standout feature is BDC Connect, as it is very useful for sharing data without replicating to third-party tools such as Enterprise Databricks, Snowflake or even in the near future, Google BigQuery as well as Microsoft Fabric.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

BigQuery

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP Business Data Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

104

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (10th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (3rd), Business Performance Management (2nd), Cloud Analytics (2nd), Predictive Analytics (2nd), Data Governance (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of BigQuery is 7.3%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Business Data Cloud is 3.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BigQuery	7.3%
SAP Business Data Cloud	3.1%
Other	89.6%

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Featured Reviews

Mikah Sellers

Principal at Sgt Suds

Has supported detailed policy and education analysis with low-code data exploration

I do not use AWS as my main cloud provider within the company and am not currently using it with AWS. My company did not buy it through the AWS Marketplace as I'm the founder of the company. I do not use BigQuery's integration with Google Analytics for custom behavior analysis. I have not utilized the geospatial analysis capabilities with BigQuery as I'm doing mostly human capital work, so geospatial wouldn't make sense. I would rate their service on a scale of one to 10 for Google as ten. I would rate BigQuery as nine out of 10. My experience with the pricing for BigQuery was through a grant from Google. Their pricing is fairly priced and pretty comparable to Microsoft's offering. I haven't had direct experience, but I did look at the pricing of the Microsoft offering and it's pretty similar. I do not deal with Google AI tools such as Vertex.

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Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Brings reporting, planning, and prediction together in one seamless workflow

I think the areas of SAP Analytics Cloud that could be improved or enhanced are mentioned by users or companies, and they would definitely mention the price in terms of planning licensing. From a consulting point of view, I don't see any major weaknesses. It is reasonably well-developed, and the perfect strength is that innovations are coming on a quarterly basis. It is slightly behind other tools in terms of the number of graphical outputs. Some tools have it faster, but every increment of innovations contains new features. On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family, for example, integrated business planning for the production planning. This is really a highlight compared to other tools.

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Financial Services Firm

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Media Company

Manufacturing Company

15%

Construction Company

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	20

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Small Business	43
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	58

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigQuery?

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What needs improvement with BigQuery?

With what I have seen in BigQuery, I had some response times problems, but then it is an analytical database and not a transactional database, so it comes with eventual consistency. I cannot have e...

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What is your primary use case for BigQuery?

We are mostly dealing with Google solutions such as BigQuery, NoSQL, SQL analytical database, secrets manager, and most of the serverless infrastructure as well, databases. I run SQL queries on Big...

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Also Known As

SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Digital Boardroom, SAP Analytics Hub

Overview

BigQuery is a powerful cloud-based data warehouse offering advanced SQL querying, seamless Google integration, and scalable handling of large datasets. Its serverless architecture and built-in AI capabilities facilitate efficient data processing and insights extraction.

BigQuery provides an efficient data analysis platform with low-latency performance and cost-effective on-demand pricing. Leveraging Google's cloud infrastructure for data storage, it offers robust security and high availability. While it excels in SQL support and caching features, it can improve on user accessibility, integration with diverse tools, and machine learning feature expansion. Making it more accessible for smaller entities through improved cost management and local data compliance is essential. Enhancements in query speed and intuitive interfaces can further optimize performance.

What features are offered by BigQuery?

User-friendly interface: Simplifies data interaction, making complex processes more manageable.
Serverless architecture: Eliminates the need for infrastructure management, improving scalability and efficiency.
Advanced SQL querying: Enables complex data retrieval and manipulation with ease.
Machine learning integration: Facilitates AI-driven insights directly from the platform.
Cost-effective pricing: On-demand pricing helps manage expenses by paying only for used resources.
Seamless Google integration: Works well with familiar Google services for a cohesive experience.
High availability and robust security: Ensures data is secure and accessible when needed.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating BigQuery?

Efficient data processing: Quickly handles large datasets, supporting fast data-driven decision-making.
Scalable infrastructure: Grows capacity alongside business needs without manual infrastructure adjustments.
Enhanced data analysis: SQL support and caching features improve analysis precision and speed.
AI and machine learning capabilities: Enable advanced data insights and predictive analytics.
Integration with existing tools: Ensures smooth workflow transitions with services such as Google Analytics and Tableau.

In industries like healthcare, finance, and marketing, BigQuery is extensively used for data storage, generating reports, and supporting ETL processes. Educational institutions leverage it for analytics, aligning seamlessly with Google Cloud for serverless infrastructure efficiencies.

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SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is a unified, intelligent data platform — part of the SAP Business AI Platform — that governs SAP and third-party data through a business data fabric. As an evolution of our industry-leading data, analytics and planning solutions, Business Data Cloud brings together Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, and Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers transformational insights across all lines of business. By harmonizing mission-critical data with the business processes and logic that give it meaning, SAP BDC delivers a trusted foundation for analytics and AI, empowering data teams and business leaders to make faster, more confident decisions.

What are the most important features of SAP Business Data Cloud?

Unified Data Connectivity: Native integration with SAP applications and third-party sources, eliminating data silos
Business-ready data products: Fully managed SAP data products across all business processes, providing immediate access to high-quality, trusted data
Semantic Data Modeling: A business semantic layer ensures data is translated into consistent, business context across the enterprise
End-to-End Data Governance: Built-in lineage tracking, data quality management, access controls, and compliance support
AI-Assisted Analytics and Planning: Go from insights to action instantly with planning and analytics together in one solution
Open Data Architecture: Enable secure and seamless, zero-copy sharing of semantically rich SAP data into existing data platform environments

What benefits or ROI should users look for in SAP Business Data Cloud?

Accelerated Time to Insight: Less time cleaning and validating data means more time analyzing and acting
Reduced Data Management Costs: One platform replaces multiple point solutions, lowering licensing and IT overhead
Improved Data Trust and Quality: Embedded governance reduces the risk of decisions made on inaccurate or inconsistent data
Faster Compliance and Auditability: Built-in lineage and access controls streamline regulatory reporting and audit preparation
Enhanced Business Agility: Real-time data and self-service analytics help teams respond quickly without relying on IT
Maximized SAP Investment Value: Makes existing SAP transactional data fully accessible and analytics-ready
AI Readiness: A clean, governed data foundation accelerates confident AI and ML adoption across the business

SAP Business Data Cloud is a key component of SAP's vision for the autonomous enterprise. By unifying data connectivity, governance, semantic modeling, and analytics in a single cloud-native platform, SAP BDC eliminates fragmentation and complexity — serving as the connective tissue that ties your entire enterprise together and positioning organizations for long-term success in an AI-driven world.

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