Multimodal tables, currently in preview, will allow enterprises to bring complex data types to BigQuery and store them alongside structured data in unified storage for querying.
“To effectively manage this comprehensive data estate, our enhanced BigQuery governance provides a single, unified view for data stewards and professionals to handle discovery, classification, curation, quality, usage, and sharing, including automated cataloging and metadata generation,” Ahmad wrote.
While BigQuery governance is still in preview, automated cataloging, as a feature, has been made generally available. Other updates to BigQuery include the general availability of Google Cloud for Apache Kafka to facilitate real-time data streaming, analytics; and the addition of serverless execution of Apache Spark workloads in preview.
