Google Cloud announced a public preview of their BigQuery Native JSON data type, bringing support for semi-structured data in BigQuery.
Google Cloud Platform Gets Price Drop, New Features
Google announced on Tuesday at its Cloud Platform Live event that it is lowering prices on Cloud Platform, and launching cloud-based DevOps tooling, Managed Virtual Machines (VM) for App Engine, real-time Big Data analytics with BigQuery. On the pricing, Google…
Google Adds Capabilities To BigQuery
Google announced a new update to BigQuery today, with the ability to run queries that return large numbers of rows and save them as a new table. The update also adds window functions, like the ability to take advantage of…
Google BigQuery Helps Show How Weather Influences Shopping
Interactions, a marketing firm for supermarket chains and big box stores, announced some interesting findings based on analysis with Google’s BigQuery and Tableau, measuring the effects of major weather events on sales. “This case study is just the first analysis…
Google Ups Its Cloud Platform Support Game
Google announced the launch of a new set of support packages for services on the Google Cloud Platform today. These cover App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, etc. “While you can go to Stack Overflow or Google…
Google Adds Batch Queries, Excel Connector To BigQuery
Google announced today that it has added a couple of new features to BigQuery, its Big Data analysis service. It now supports batch queries, and has a connector for Excel. “While BigQuery specializes in getting insights quickly, we understand that…
Google’s BigQuery Means Analytics for all Businesses
Google is introducing an analytics solution for businesses of all sizes without the need for investments in additional hardware or software. BigQuery is a web service that lets you analyze information from huge datasets and have on-demand access to the…
BigQuery: Google’s Data Analysis Platform
Let’s say you’re with a company that analyzes thousands of terabytes as part of its business. You can either build a giant data farm to sift all of the data, or you can, well, all you can really do is…