Google BigQuery

It is an autonomous data and AI platform and data warehouse that automates the data lifecycle from ingestion to AI-driven insights, enabling analytics on multimodal data, predictive analytics, and generative AI workflows. It sells to data teams, developers, and IT teams in businesses and government organizations that manage large-scale analytics and AI workloads. It is delivered as a SaaS and infrastructure API on a cloud platform with built-in AI agents, open-source interoperability, and a free tier for storage and queries.

Key features

• Automate data lifecycle from ingestion to insights
• Train and deploy ML models with SQL
• Generative AI functions for text and media
• Vector, text and hybrid search with embeddings
• Graph analytics for relationship discovery
• Conversational analytics with natural language queries
• Data Engineering Agent for pipeline automation
• Data Science Agent for model workflows
• Apache Iceberg read/write interoperability
• High-throughput streaming with CDC support
• Automated Iceberg compaction and clustering
• Automatic metadata harvesting and data profiling
• Data quality and lineage via Knowledge Catalog
• Semantic search and Context APIs for agents