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Getting AI to write good SQL

Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.

Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology

Recently, Google Cloud partner Groovenauts, Inc. published a live demo of MatchIt Fast . As the demo shows, you can find images and text similar to a selected sample from a collection of millions in a matter of milliseconds:

Google to Acquire Looker

Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.

Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB

Alongside lower costs, Cloud Spanner provides single-digit ms latencies and strong consistency across multiple availability zones in the same region.

Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development -- now generally available globally.

BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users

New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.

Colossus for Rapid Storage

Colossus’s performance comes from its stateful protocol, which plays a pivotal role in the new Rapid Storage offering launched at Google Cloud Next '25.

History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner

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BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A

Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13

Fully managed Cloud SQL cloud database service now supports PostgreSQL 13.

Gcloud storage: Faster data transfers for Cloud Storage

gcloud CLI enables super-fast data transfers into Cloud Storage and delivers a consistent CLI experience across all Google Cloud services.

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

Mandiant aims to lower the barrier for security professionals to demonstrate the insecurity of Net-NTLMv1.

AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere

Today, we’re excited to announce the technology preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.

Ice cold archive storage

Get the latest cloud storage news here from Google Cloud, with a new archive storage class and Persistent Disk updates.

Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset

Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Earlier this year, we made the Bitcoin dataset publicly available for analysis in Google BigQuery. Today we’re making the…

Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format

Google Cloud Public Datasets now hosts EPA and OpenAQ air quality data

Dataflow/Beam and Spark: A Programming Model Comparison

Dataflow is a fully managed streaming analytics service that reduces latency, processing time, cost through autoscaling and real-time data processing.

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine

In this technical deep dive, we take a look at the columnar engine that delivers industry leading query performance for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL.

Busting myths about BigQuery

Cloud Spanner now with a free trial

Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.

Spanner: TrueTime and external consistency

Understand Spanner's TrueTime and external consistency, ensuring globally consistent reads and writes across the distributed database.