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The borderless Lakehouse: Bring AWS, Databricks and Snowflake data to your AI agents
Google Cloud introduced enhancements to its borderless Lakehouse, which uses Apache Iceberg to enable zero-copy querying of data across various clouds and SaaS applications.
Why it matters
Companies can reduce the cost and time spent on moving massive datasets while providing AI agents with real-time access to distributed data for more accurate business outcomes.
The details
- Supports catalog federation for AWS Glue, Databricks Unity, and Snowflake Horizon.
- Cross-Cloud Interconnects reduce latency and eliminate variable egress costs from AWS.
- Knowledge Catalog translates raw schemas into business terminology to improve AI grounding.
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Managed Service for Apache Spark uses Apache Spark
Managed Service for Apache Spark runs Apache Spark analytics workloads.
AWS develops and operates the AWS Glue serverless data integration service.
Google owns Spanner Omni
Google Cloud offers Spanner Omni for multi-cloud database deployment.
Google owns Data Agent Kit
Google Cloud developed the open-source Data Agent Kit for building data agents.
Google owns Cross-Cloud Interconnect
Google Cloud offers Cross-Cloud Interconnect for low-latency multi-cloud links.
Databricks owns Databricks Unity Catalog
Databricks offers Databricks Unity Catalog for data governance.
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Snowflake owns Snowflake Horizon
Snowflake offers Snowflake Horizon as a governance solution.
Databricks competes with Snowflake
Databricks and Snowflake compete in cloud data platforms.
Databricks competes with Google
Databricks and Google compete in data analytics platforms.
Snowflake competes with Google
Snowflake and Google compete in enterprise cloud data warehousing.
Google Cloud is a partner of SAP
Google Cloud integrates zero-copy data capabilities with SAP.
Google Cloud is a partner of Salesforce
Google Cloud provides zero-copy integration with Salesforce applications.
Google owns Managed Service for Apache Spark
Google Cloud provides Managed Service for Apache Spark for running Spark compute jobs.
Google Cloud is a partner of Workday
Google Cloud supports zero-copy data integration with Workday.
BigQuery uses Apache Iceberg
BigQuery connects to and queries Apache Iceberg tables across clouds.
Knowledge Catalog is related to AWS Glue
Knowledge Catalog synchronizes feeds with AWS Glue.
Knowledge Catalog is related to Databricks Unity Catalog
Knowledge Catalog synchronizes metadata with Databricks Unity Catalog.
Knowledge Catalog is related to Snowflake Horizon
Knowledge Catalog automatically synchronizes feeds with Snowflake Horizon.
Gemini Enterprise uses Knowledge Catalog
Gemini Enterprise agents rely on Knowledge Catalog for business context and lineage.
Data Agent Kit uses Gemini Enterprise
Data Agent Kit publishes custom data agents into Gemini Enterprise.
Spanner Omni is related to Google Cloud
Spanner Omni expands Google Cloud's database portfolio to multi-cloud environments.
AlloyDB is related to BigQuery
Lakehouse Federation for AlloyDB enables direct queries to BigQuery data warehouses.
Cross-Cloud Interconnect is related to AWS
Cross-Cloud Interconnect enables zero variable egress cost access to AWS data.
Cross-Cloud Interconnect is related to Azure
Cross-Cloud Interconnect links Google Cloud directly to Azure data.
Artificial Intelligence is related to Gemini Enterprise
Artificial Intelligence powers Gemini Enterprise autonomous agents.
Catalog Federation is built with Apache Iceberg
Catalog federation is built on Iceberg REST catalog.
Zero-Copy Data Integration uses BigQuery
Zero-copy integrations allow BigQuery to directly query SaaS application data.
Related events
Google Cloud announces borderless Lakehouse enhancements at Next Tokyo 2026
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