BigQuery

Connected Sheets enables direct integration between Google Sheets and BigQuery, allowing business users to analyze petabyte-scale data in real time without SQL—eliminating data silos and security risks from CSV exports; proven use cases include billion-row pivot tables, auto-refreshing dashboards, and hybrid modeling.

Lightning Engine 提升 Apache Spark 性能达 4.9 倍，通过原生执行和优化连接器实现。

Google Cloud has published a new paper at SIGMOD showing how to accelerate and reduce the cost of LLM-driven SQL queries using proxy models, achieving over 100x performance improvement and cost reduction.

SAP and Google Cloud announced a series of new features at SAP SAPPHIRE 2026 aimed at unifying and intelligently processing enterprise data through open agent collaboration, big data connectivity, and compute scaling.

Google Cloud introduces Gemini-powered Database Center for enhanced database management.

Google Cloud's Data Agent Kit is an open-source toolkit integrating BigQuery and other platforms into IDEs or CLIs via MCP, enabling intent-driven data engineering with pre-built skills to solve context window limits and fragmentation.

Google Cloud introduces cross-engine Iceberg support in BigQuery to enhance unified data lake and warehouse management.

Lovable integrates BigQuery as a connector to link data warehouses and generate dashboards via natural language prompts, but this post is a promotional teaser lacking technical implementation details or architectural principles.