What’s next for Google Cloud databases? AI inside SQL and more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For decades, the SQL query language has been the cornerstone of database technology. But what happens when you bring SQL together with modern generative AI? That’s the question that Google Cloud is answering as part of a series of database updates rolling out at the company’s Google Cloud Next conference today. Over the past year, all Google Cloud databases have added some form of vector support enabling AI use cases. At Google Cloud Next, multiple databases are being updated including Firestore, which is getting MongoDB compatibility. Google Bigtable is getting support for materialized views and support for Oracle Database in Google Cloud is also expanding. The biggest and most transformational news, at least from a database AI perspective however is in the AlloyDB database. Google first launched AlloyDB in 2022 as an enhanced version of the open source Po ... Read full article.