BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google Cloud announced a significant number of new features at its Google Cloud Next event last week, with at least 229 new announcements. Buried in that mountain of news, which included new AI chips and agentic AI capabilities, as well as database updates, Google Cloud also made some big moves with its BigQuery data warehouse service. Among the new capabilities is BigQuery Unified Governance, which helps organizations discover, understand and trust their data assets. The governance tools help address key barriers to AI adoption by ensuring data quality, accessibility and trustworthiness. The stakes are enormous for Google as it takes on rivals in the enterprise data space. BigQuery has been on the market since 2011 and has grown significantly in recent years, both in terms of capabilities and user base. Apparently, BigQuery is also a big business for Googl ... Read full article.