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Professional users looking for a solution to unify their data warehouses and lakes
About BigLake
BigLake is a storage engine that unifies data warehouses and lakes by enabling BigQuery and open-source frameworks like Spark to access data with fine-grained access control. BigLake provides accelerated query performance across multi-cloud storage and open formats such as Apache Iceberg. Store a single copy of data with uniform features across data warehouses & lakes. Fine-grained access control and multi-cloud governance over distributed data. Seamless integration with open-source analytics tools and open data formats. Unlock analytics on distributed data regardless of where and how it’s stored, while choosing the best analytics tools, open source or cloud-native over a single copy of data. Fine-grained access control across open source engines like Apache Spark, Presto, and Trino, and open formats such as Parquet. Performant queries over data lakes powered by BigQuery. Integrates with Dataplex to provide management at scale, including logical data organization.
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$5 per TB
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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United States
cloud.google.com/biglake
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