Google shoots for "limitless" data with Big Cloud and new alliance

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Google shoots for "limitless" data with Big Cloud and new alliance
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Google shoots for "limitless" data with Big Cloud and new alliance

Google has announced the preview of a new storage engine aimed at making it easier for enterprises to analyse the information in their data lakes and data warehouses, without having to worry about the underlying storage format or systems.

Known as BigLake, Google touts the product as a unified storage engine designed to provide a single, unified interface and uniform fine-grained access control across any storage layer, including mu...

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