BigQuery vs SAP Business Warehouse comparison

Google and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Google is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while SAP is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.4. Google holds a 7.4% mindshare in CDW, compared to SAP’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SAP users who would recommend it.

BigQuery

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

SAP Business Warehouse and BigQuery compete in the data warehousing category. BigQuery seems to have the upper hand due to its scalability and integration with Google services, making it adept at handling large-scale data efficiently.

Features: SAP Business Warehouse provides robust analytics, data integration, and process automation suitable for businesses needing comprehensive reporting. BigQuery is known for its scalability, fast SQL queries, and seamless integration with the Google Cloud ecosystem. It also offers real-time data processing, which is beneficial for rapid insights.

Room for Improvement: SAP Business Warehouse could improve its real-time processing capabilities and ease of deployment. It may also benefit from more flexible system integrations. For BigQuery, enhancing support for complex data types and reducing dependency on Google's ecosystem would be beneficial. More competitive pricing options could improve its market appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Business Warehouse generally requires more time for deployment due to customization and legacy system integration needs. It offers strong post-installation support. BigQuery, with its serverless architecture, allows fast and straightforward deployment, complemented by extensive Google Cloud support.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Business Warehouse often involves higher initial costs related to licensing and implementation, but it offers significant ROI for large organizations. BigQuery's pay-as-you-go pricing model provides flexibility with immediate scalability, proving cost-effective for cloud-based solutions with potential for compelling ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

BigQuery

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP Business Warehouse

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of BigQuery is 7.4%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Business Warehouse is 1.0%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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VikashKumar1

Tech lead at Ford Motor Company

Easy to maintain and provides high availability

Since I used BigQuery over the GCP cloud environment, I'm not sure whether we can go through internal IDEAs like IntelliJ or DBeaver that we use to connect with databases. Instead of connecting directly to BigQuery, we connect to GCP, Cloud Run, and then to BigQuery, which is a long process. Sometimes, we face some issues, bugs, and defects. We must first connect with a VPN to check data issues while working from home. Then, it allows you to connect to the cloud. After logging into the cloud, it searches for the service we are looking for, and then we go to BigQuery. This is a long process. After that, we analyze the issues in a table. Instead, it would be very helpful if it could provide a tool that we can install on our MacBook or Windows system. Once we open this tool, we can connect directly to the BigQuery server and easily perform tasks.

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JavedKhan1

SAP Security/GRC Manager at Tata Consultancy

Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes

SAP Business Warehouse could have been better. There is room for improvement from a technical perspective. So, from a technical perspective, when we are upgrading a Business Warehouse server or we are migrating from one place to another, the capability required for this upgradation has many manual activities. It took us around a month to streamline our server. Let’s say there are some transaction codes. Transaction code is a set of programs, and when you want to run a program from the backend, you need to hit the transaction code. It is called a T-code. So during the upgrade, many transaction codes get affected, and as a security consultant, it is my responsibility to recheck those transaction codes which are affected. Sometimes more than 100 codes may get affected, sometimes 500, and sometimes more as well. So, it takes a hell lot of time to integrate them again. That is a limitation or defect within the SAP Business Warehouse. SAP Business Warehouse should come up with proper solutions. Upgradation is an automatic activity. It should happen by itself. We just need to initiate it, and the backend SAP server is automatically upgraded. But it should handle the transactional code as well. They should not get absolutely, and any authorization object should not get deleted from the transaction codes. So, that functionality SAP Business Warehouse should come up with.

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

Pros

"The initial setup process is easy."

"The interface is what I find particularly valuable."

"It's similar to a Hadoop cluster, except it's managed by Google."

"The most valuable features of this solution, in my opinion, are speed and performance, as well as cost-effectiveness."

"The most valuable aspect of BigQuery is its ability to handle high data workloads without causing friction with our online systems."

"It's pretty stable. It's fast, and it is able to go through large quantities of data pretty quickly."

"BigQuery allows for very fast access, and it is efficient in handling large datasets compared to other SQL databases."

"BigQuery excels at structuring data, performing predictions, and conducting insightful analyses and it leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, powered by Google's Duarte AI."

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"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."

"The product is very stable."

"Predominantly, our company uses SAP Business Warehouse for reporting purposes across various departments, especially for managers to gain a quick understanding of their current standing and make informed decisions."

"I like that it integrates to open-source."

"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."

"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."

"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."

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Cons

"The product could benefit from improvements in user-friendliness, particularly in terms of the user interface."

"The processing capability can be an area of improvement."

"I noticed recently it's more expensive now."

"When I execute a query, the dashboard doesn't always present the output seamlessly."

"Instead of connecting directly to BigQuery, we connect to GCP, Cloud Run, and then to BigQuery, which is a long process."

"I would like to see version-based implementation and a fallback arrangement for data stored in BigQuery storage. These are some features I'm interested in."

"It would be better if BigQuery didn't have huge restrictions. For example, when we migrate from on-premises to on-premise, the data which handles all ebook characters can be handled on-premise. But in BigQuery, we have huge restrictions. If we have some symbols, like a hash or other special characters, it won't accept them. Not in all cases, but it won't accept a few special characters, and when we migrate, we get errors. We need to use Regexp or something similar to replace that with another character. This isn't expected from a high-range technology like BigQuery. It has to adapt all products. For instance, if we have a TV Showroom, the TV symbol will be there in the shop name. Teradata and Apache Spark accept this, but BigQuery won't. This is the primary concern that we had. In the next release, it would be better if the query on the external table also had cache. Right now, we are using a GCS bucket, and in the native table, we have cache. For example, if we query the same table, it won't cost because it will try to fetch the records from the cached result. But when we run queries on the external table a number of times, it won't be cached. That's a major drawback of BigQuery. Only the native table has the cache option, and the external table doesn't. If there is an option to have an external table for cache purposes, it'll be a significant advantage for our organization."

"As a product, BigQuery still requires a lot of maturity to accommodate other use cases and to be widely acceptable across other organizations."

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"One of our requirements is the ability to easily get answers regarding trends and exceptions. In BW, it is not that easy to get such information. I expect better trend and exception detection, better pattern detection."

"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."

"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."

"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."

"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."

"The problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."

"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."

"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are above the free threshold, so we are paying around 40 euros per month for BigQuery."

"I have tried my own setup using my Gmail ID, and I think it had a $300 limit for free for a new user. That's what Google is offering, and we can register and create a project."

"BigQuery pricing can increase quickly. It's a high-priced solution."

"The platform is inexpensive."

"The solution is pretty affordable and quite cheap in comparison to PDP or Cloudera."

"The product’s pricing could be more flexible for end users."

"The tool has competitive pricing."

"One terabyte of data costs $20 to $22 per month for storage on BigQuery and $25 on Snowflake. Snowflake is costlier for one terabyte, but BigQuery charges based on how much data is inserted into the tables. BigQuery charges you based on the amount of data that you handle and not the time in which you handle it. This is why the pricing models are different and it becomes a key consideration in the decision of which platform to use."

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"The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."

"It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."

"The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."

"It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."

"I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."

"SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BigQuery?

The initial setup process is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigQuery?

The price is perceived as expensive, rated at eight out of ten in terms of costliness. Still, it offers significant cost savings.

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What needs improvement with BigQuery?

When I open many of the Google Cloud products, I am in an environment that I do not feel familiar with; it is a little overwhelming. In general, if I know SQL and start playing around, it will star...

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What do you like most about SAP Business Warehouse?

Out-of-the-box reports are very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Business Warehouse?

The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.

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What needs improvement with SAP Business Warehouse?

Over a period, we realized that the license and maintenance costs were quite expensive. Every day, we had to run the background job ODS. Eventually, we moved away from SAP Business Warehouse and bo...

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Overview

BigQuery is an enterprise data warehouse that solves this problem by enabling super-fast SQL queries using the processing power of Google's infrastructure. ... You can control access to both the project and your data based on your business needs, such as giving others the ability to view or query your data.

Google

Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.

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Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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