Google Cloud adds 11 blockchains to data warehouse 'BigQuery'

Google Cloud’s BigQuery work conscionable added 11 blockchains networks to its information warehouse, according to a September 21 blog post. The caller networks include Avalanche, Arbitrum, Cronos, Ethereum Görli testnet, Fantom, Near, Optimism, Polkadot, Polygon mainnet, Polygon Mumbai testnet, and Tron.

— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) September 21, 2023

BigQuery is Google’s information warehouse service. Enterprise firms tin usage it to store their information and marque queries of it. It besides provides immoderate nationalist datasets that tin beryllium queried, including Google Trends, American Community Service demographic information, Google Analytics, and others.

In 2018, Google launched a Bitcoin dataset arsenic portion of the service, and aboriginal that year, it added Ethereum arsenic well. It continued to grow its blockchain sum successful February of 2019, adding Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, and Zcash. The September 21 announcement means that BigQuery present carries information from a full of 19 blockchain networks.

In summation to adding these caller blockchains, Google has besides implemented a caller diagnostic intended to marque blockchains queries easier to execute. Through a bid of user-defined functions (UDFs), the squad has provided methods to grip the long-form decimal results often recovered connected blockchains. In its post, Google claimed that these caller functions volition “give customers entree to longer decimal digits for their blockchain information and trim rounding errors successful computation.”

Google Cloud has been taking an expanding involvement successful blockchain tech successful 2023. On July 7, it partnered with Voltage, a Lightning Network infrastructure provider. And it partnered with Web3 startup Orderly Network connected September 14 to assistance supply off-chain components for decentralized finance.