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New Features in BigQuery

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Agnieszka Thomas

agnieszka.thomas@insightland.org

Published 11 Sep 2024

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Introduction

Google BigQuery has introduced new features that enhance data analysis, real-time processing, and integration with other tools. These improvements facilitate advanced analytics and process automation, enabling businesses to make quicker decisions.

New Features

ScaNN (Scalable Nearest Neighbors): Enables fast searching of similar data in large datasets, useful in ML applications like recommendations and image analysis. It allows BigQuery to handle large volumes of queries efficiently.

Continuous Queries: Supports real-time data processing, providing instant access to the latest information. This helps detect fraud quickly and supports reverse ETL, which sends data to other systems like Apache Kafka without batch processing.

Data Insights: Offers interactive exploration, automatic summaries, and visualizations of data in BigQuery. Users can easily understand data structure and quality, identify trends, and gain insights without needing advanced technical skills.

Summary

With these new BigQuery features, companies can process data faster and make decisions based on up-to-date information, speeding up operational activities.