Accelerate your analytics: New Bigtable SQL capabilities drive real-time insights

For decades, businesses have wrestled with unlocking the true potential of their data for real-time operations. Bigtable, Google Cloud's pioneering NoSQL database, has been the engine behind massive-scale, low-latency applications that operate at a global scale. It was purpose-built for the challenges faced in real-time applications, and remains a key piece of Google infrastructure, including YouTube and Ads. 

This week at Google Cloud Next, we announced continuous materialized views, an expansion of Bigtable’ SQL capabilities. Bigtable SQL and continuous materialized views enable users to build fully-managed, real-time application backends using familiar SQL syntax, including specialized features that preserve Bigtable's flexible schema — a vital aspect of real-time applications. 

Whether you're building streaming applications, real-time aggregations, or global AI analysis on a continuous data stream, Bigtable just got a whole lot easier — and much more powerful...

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