Introduction to BigQuery editions

This document provides an introduction to BigQuery editions and the features associated with them.

Overview

BigQuery provides three editions (Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus) to support different types of workloads. These editions provide an alternative to existing reservation models. You can choose to use editions and on-demand models at the same time.

Each edition provides a set of capabilities at a different price point to match the requirements of different types of customers. You can create a reservation or a capacity commitment associated with an edition. Capacity commitments are not required to purchase slots, but can save on costs. For more information about slots autoscaling, see Introduction to slots autoscaling. As BigQuery editions is a property of compute power, not storage, you can query datasets regardless of how they are stored as long as you are not using a non-matching edition specific capability.

Editions features

The following table lists the features available in each edition. Features outside of your edition are blocked or lack functionality.

	Standard	Enterprise	Enterprise Plus	Non-edition offerings
Pricing model	Slot-hours (1 minute minimum)	Slot-hours (1 minute minimum)	Slot-hours (1 minute minimum)	Pay per query with free tier
Compute model	Autoscaling	Autoscaling + Baseline	Autoscaling + Baseline	On-demand
Maximum reservation size	1,600 slots	Quota	Quota	Quota
Maximum reservations per administration project	10
Commitment plans		1-year commitment at 20% discount or 3-year commitment at 40% discount	1-year commitment at 20% discount or 3-year commitment at 40% discount	Monthly and annual commitment discounts
Monthly Service Level Objective (SLO)	>=99.9%	>=99.99%	>=99.99%	>=99.99%
Compliance controls			Compliance controls through Assured Workloads	Compliance controls through Assured Workloads
VPC Service Controls		VPC Service Controls Support	VPC Service Controls Support	VPC Service Controls Support
Data governance		Column-level access control Row-level security Dynamic data masking	Column-level access control Row-level security Dynamic data masking Data egress Data clean room subscriptions	Column-level access control Row-level security Dynamic data masking Data egress
Storage encryption	Google-managed keys	Google-managed keys	Customer-managed keys (CMEK) Google-managed keys	Customer-managed keys (CMEK) Google-managed keys
Business Intelligence acceleration		Query acceleration through BI Engine	Query acceleration through BI Engine	Query acceleration through BI Engine
Materialized views	Query existing materialized views directly	Create materialized views Automatic refresh of materialized views Manual refresh of materialized views Direct query of materialized views Smart tuning	Create materialized views Automatic refresh of materialized views Manual refresh of materialized views Direct query of materialized views Smart tuning	Create materialized views Automatic refresh of materialized views Manual refresh of materialized views Direct query of materialized views Smart tuning
Search	Access to the SEARCH function without access to search indexes	Query acceleration with search indexes	Query acceleration with search indexes	Query acceleration with search indexes
Unstructured data	Query object tables	Object tables with ML inference	Object tables with ML inference	Query object tables
Integrated machine learning		BigQuery ML	BigQuery ML	BigQuery ML
Workload management	Users cannot set the maximum concurrency target	Advanced workload management (idle capacity sharing, target concurrency)	Advanced workload management (idle capacity sharing, target concurrency)	On-demand users do not have access to Advanced workload management
Supported assignment types	QUERY, PIPELINE	QUERY, PIPELINE, ML_EXTERNAL, BACKGROUND	QUERY, PIPELINE, ML_EXTERNAL, BACKGROUND	QUERY, PIPELINE, ML_EXTERNAL, BACKGROUND
Multi-cloud analytics		BigQuery Omni support		BigQuery Omni support

Edition tiers should not be used to restrict access to specific features, as the features assigned to each edition could change over time. For example, do not assign projects to Standard edition reservations just to disable BigQuery ML.

Storage encryption support

BigQuery automatically encrypts all data at rest. By default, Google manages the key encryption keys used to protect your data. You can also use customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) in Enterprise Plus edition.

Note: CMEK offerings that were accessible on or before July 5, 2023 will continue to be accessible in Enterprise edition to customers who purchased BigQuery slots before this date.

Assured Workloads support

BigQuery Enterprise Plus edition supports Assured Workloads platform controls for regulatory compliance regimes, including FedRAMP, CJIS, IL4, and ITAR.

Assured Workloads offerings that were accessible on or before July 5, 2023 will continue to be accessible in Enterprise edition to customers who purchased BigQuery slots before this date.

Pricing

For information about BigQuery editions pricing, see BigQuery pricing.

Quotas

Slots from all editions are subject to the same quota. Your quota is not fulfilled on a per-edition basis. For information about quotas, see Quotas and limits.

What's next

• For more information on slots autoscaling, see Introduction to slots autoscaling.
• For more information on reservations, see Introduction to Reservations.