Google adds Gemini to BigQuery, Looker to help with data engineering [Video]

Other updates include support for open source Apache Spark and Kafka integrations to BigQuery.

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Google Cloud is adding its generative AI-based chatbot Gemini into its fully-managed data analytics service BigQuery in order to ease several data-related tasks for enterprise professionals, it said Thursday.

Gemini inside BigQuery will aid with code generation, code completion, code explanation (SQL, Python), help with data canvas, and provide partitioning and clustering recommendations, said Gerrit Kazmaier, vice president of data analytics at Google Cloud.

Analysts said they expect data professionals to see the addition of Gemini as a welcome move, as data engineering is often the most time-consuming task in many enterprise data and analytic processes.

“The generative AI-based chatbot can help data professionals by augmenting various tasks, such as assisting with data imputation to data model discovery and maintenance,” said Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst with Omdia.

Explaining the importance of data partitioning recommendations from Gemini in BigQuery, Nucleus …