BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Sep 9, 2025 By James Liu In Google BigQuery BigQuery’s Column Metadata (CMETA) index delivers superior scalability and performance, with no maintenance overhead, and may reduce slot usage. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA
Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing Sep 4, 2025 By Larry Henderson In Google BigQuery Minimize data loss during planned DR activities and ensure business continuity with soft failover in BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing
Enhancing BigQuery geospatial with Earth Engine raster analytics and map visualization Aug 26, 2025 By Sheba Rasson In Google BigQuery BigQuery now integrates Earth Engine for geospatial analytics, making it easy to join structured data with satellite imagery and visualize insights. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about Enhancing BigQuery geospatial with Earth Engine raster analytics and map visualization
Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Aug 22, 2025 By Dhruv Ahuja In Google BigQuery Automate your Databricks to BigQuery migration. Learn how to use Gemini to translate complex SQL code accurately and save hours of manual work. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini
BigQuery under the hood: Short query optimizations in the advanced runtime Aug 7, 2025 By Mohamed S. Hassan In Google BigQuery BigQuery short query optimizations accelerate small queries by executing them as a single stage. It can significantly improve slot time and latency. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about BigQuery under the hood: Short query optimizations in the advanced runtime
Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model Jul 10, 2025 By Haoming Chen In Google BigQuery BigQuery ML TimesFM model is now in preview, and forecasts datasets through the use of generative AI. Read Post Google BigQuery AI Analytics BI Blog Read more about Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model
Beyond GROUP BY: Introducing advanced aggregation functions in BigQuery Jul 10, 2025 By Candice Chen In Google BigQuery BigQuery has three new categories of advanced aggregation functions: group by extensions, user-defined and approximate aggregate functions. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about Beyond GROUP BY: Introducing advanced aggregation functions in BigQuery
Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing Jun 26, 2025 By Jamy Su In Google BigQuery The new ObjectRef data type helps to integrate unstructured data like images and audio into existing BigQuery tables. Read Post Google BigQuery AI Analytics BI Blog Read more about Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing
BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime Jun 19, 2025 By Andrei Maksimenka In Google BigQuery BigQuery applies enhanced vectorization to aspects of query processing such as filter evaluation and data encodings and optimization techniques. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Read more about BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime
Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery Jun 11, 2025 By Bhooshan Mogal In Google BigQuery Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark, now available in BigQuery is an open-source, zero-ops, high performance, and unified analytics platform. Read Post Google BigQuery Analytics BI Blog Serverless Read more about Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark: high-performance, unified with BigQuery