Tag: bigquery
Google Revs Cloud Databases, Adds More GenAI to the Mix
Google Cloud has been stuck in third place among the cloud bigs for years, but it’s banking on a slew of database and AI enhancements unveiled at its Next Tokyo ‘24 conference today to help differentiate its offering Read more…
Unravel Keeps Tabs on BigQuery Usage Following Pricing Changes
Google Cloud last month changed how it charges for BigQuery, its flagship offering for SQL analytics on structured data and machine learning on unstructured data. Customers concerned about keeping their BigQuery budget o Read more…
Google Cloud Bolsters Data, Analytics, and AI Offerings
Today at its Data Cloud & AI Summit, Google Cloud unleashed a series of enhancements designed to bolster various database, analytics, and AI and machine learning offerings, including its BigQuery data warehouse, Look Read more…
Google, Twitter Expand Data Cloud Partnership
Google and Twitter are expanding a partnership that will see the social media platform complete the move of its analytics, data processing and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud. The partners said the sh Read more…
MLB Hits a Home Run with BigQuery Migration
The Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. may be delighting baseball fans with his energetic style of play during this COVID-shortened season. But there's plenty of excitement in the back office too, now that Major League Baseball Read more…
Google Cloud Extends BigQuery to AWS, Azure
Google Cloud today announced BigQuery Omni, a new offering that allows BigQuery users to analyze data residing in Amazon Web Services and, soon, Microsoft Azure, in addition to data residing in Google Cloud. BigQuery Omni will provide a... Read more…
Google Enters Data Catalog Business, Updates BigQuery
Google today rolled out a data catalog that will eventually give customers visibility into all of their data assets in the Google Cloud and beyond. It also bolstered BigQuery with support for materialized views and a new Read more…
Tick Data Comes to BigQuery
A huge batch of tick data, used by financial traders to track the minimum upward or downward movement of stock prices, has been added to Google Cloud Platform, allowing financial analysts to plug pricing and trading data Read more…
The Data Nerds Have Won
The data is in and the results are clear: The data nerds have won. That's the consensus emerging from Looker's user conference in San Francisco this week, where hundreds of data professionals congregated to extend their Read more…
Return of the Living Data
When Google published a paper on its proprietary BigQuery engine about nine years ago, the open source community reproduced the technology as best they could, just as they did with MapReduce and the Google File System, w Read more…
Tibco Expands Cloud Services, Partnerships
Tibco Software, the cloud and business intelligence specialist, announced a batch of upgraded services and partnerships this week, including expanded cloud-native support aimed at developers along with a cloud partnershi Read more…
Google, Looker Eye Data Scaling via Multi-Cloud
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Googl Read more…
Google Cloud Unveils Slew of New Data Management and Analytics Services
Google today unveiled a handful of new cloud services designed to simplify common tasks in the data analytics workflow, including a beta of a new data integration and ETL service called Cloud Data Fusion, the capability Read more…
Google Touts Stable Cloud Storage Prices
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. Among his first moves was announcing pla Read more…
Data Warehousing with a Modern Twist
Bill Inmon is generally credited with inventing the phrase "data warehouse" in the early 1990s to describe the stockpiling of data using relational databases. It may be an older term, but the activity itself remains quit Read more…
Google Extends BigQuery Reach Across Europe
Google Cloud is extending the reach of its BigQuery data warehouse deeper into Europe, enabling users to store data and perform analytics in the countries where they operate. Regional availability of data storage and Read more…
Looker Joins Google in Launch of BigQuery ML
Looker, the data platform builder looking to expand the reach of its “horizontal” foundation, added another component this week with the integration of its tools with the beta release of Google’s cloud-based BigQue Read more…
Google Cloud Will Assist With March Madness Brackets
With Amazon Web Services maintaining its dominance n the public cloud market, the price wars of the last few years have given way to new ways of competing with the AWS juggernaut as big data, analytics and machine learni Read more…