Comparison
Quayen vs Striim for MySQL to BigQuery
Striim is an enterprise streaming integration platform with CDC from many databases, in-flight SQL processing and many destinations, offered as Striim Cloud or the self-hosted Striim Platform. Its BigQuery Writer can stream through the Storage Write API and merge changes. Quayen only does MySQL to BigQuery, with self-serve setup and published prices.
| Quayen | Striim | |
|---|---|---|
| How changes move | Continuous: changes reach a BigQuery change-history table within seconds; up-to-date tables refresh every 1 to 60 minutes | Continuous streaming; BigQuery Writer uses the Storage Write API, batch loads or the legacy streaming API, in merge or append-only mode |
| Pricing | Published plans priced by monthly active rows, from $19/month; initial copies and re-copies free | Striim Cloud and Striim Platform: contact sales for pricing |
| Free tier | Free during early access (fair use: 3 pipelines, 100M changed rows a month); afterwards a free plan with 1M monthly active rows | Striim Developer: free, up to 25 million events a month, for learning and small-scale use |
| Sources | MySQL (RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Azure, self-hosted) | Many databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and more), SaaS apps and object stores |
| Destinations | BigQuery | Many, including BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric |
| Deployment | Managed service; data written to your own BigQuery project | Fully managed (Striim Cloud) or self-hosted (Striim Platform) |
| In-flight transformations | None; changes land as-is and you transform in BigQuery | Streaming SQL processing inside the pipeline |
Choose Striim if
- You need CDC from several database engines into several destinations
- You want stream processing with SQL inside the pipeline
- You need a self-hosted deployment
Choose Quayen if
- Your pipeline is MySQL to BigQuery and you want to set it up yourself in minutes
- You want published per-row pricing instead of a sales quote
- You want a separate change-history dataset next to an up-to-date copy
Striim details are based on its public documentation as of November 2026 and may have changed: Striim pricing, Striim BigQuery Writer docs.
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