Data Analytics Articles

Data Engineering•2026-04-14

08 min read

From operational to analytical: The unified Spanner Graph and BigQuery Graph solution

Google Cloud introduces a unified graph database and analytics solution combining Spanner Graph for operational workloads and BigQuery Graph for analytical workloads, eliminating data silos and enabling real-time and large-scale analysis.

Data Engineering•2026-04-10

Accelerating data curation with Google Data Cloud

This article explores Google Data Cloud's data curation accelerators that automate the process of organizing, cleaning, and enriching raw data for enterprise AI and analytics.

Data Engineering•2026-04-10

13 min read

Data Studio returns as new home for Data Cloud assets

Google reintroduced Data Studio as the new central hub for Google Data Cloud assets with unified access to data visualization and analysis tools.

Data Engineering•2026-04-08

57 min read

Openness without compromises for your Apache Iceberg lakehouse

Google announces read/write interoperability between BigQuery and Iceberg engines (Spark, Flink, Trino) via Google-managed Iceberg REST Catalog.

Under one roof: Rightmove reinvents property search with unified data

Rightmove describes how it migrated from on-premises databases to Google Cloud to build a unified data and AI platform called 'the data hive.'

AI & Machine Learning

Data Engineering•2026-04-06

Introducing Looker self-service Explores for faster ad-hoc analysis

Looker introduces self-service Explores, letting users import flat files and Google Sheets directly into the Looker semantic layer for instant ad-hoc analysis.

Data Engineering•2026-04-06

53 min read

Conversational Analytics now available for Looker Embedded environments

Google announces the general availability of Conversational Analytics API for Looker Embedded environments, enabling natural language data querying in third-party applications.

Data Engineering•2026-04-06

104 min read

How a leading consumer insight brand uses Dataproc to hyper-personalise faster

RVU shares how they use Google Cloud Dataproc and Serverless Apache Spark to power hyper-personalization across their consumer brands (Confused.com, Uswitch, Money.co.uk, etc.).

Application Modernization

Data Engineering•2026-04-02

How Honeylove boosts product quality and service efficiency with BigQuery

Honeylove, a fashion-tech company, shares how they use Google BigQuery and Gemini to unify data, automate insights, and improve product quality and service efficiency.

AI & Machine Learning

Data Engineering•2026-03-26

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

Google Data Cloud recaps weekly product updates spanning databases, analytics, and AI integrations from January to March 2026.

Databases

How FM Logistic tackled the traveling salesman problem at warehouse scale with AlphaEvolve

FM Logistic used Google Cloud's AlphaEvolve to optimize warehouse routing by evolving a better traveling salesman algorithm, achieving a 10.4% efficiency gain over an already-optimized baseline.

Retail

Customers

Google Cloud in Europe

AI & Machine Learning

Data Engineering•2026-03-16

74 min read

BigQuery Studio is more useful than ever, with enhanced Gemini assistant

BigQuery Studio's enhanced Gemini-powered assistant transforms from a code helper into a fully context-aware analytics partner.

BigQuery