Feature Bigtable offers conversational analytics, which lets you query you operational data using natural language. This feature is powered by the Conversational Analytics API. This feature is in Preview. For more information, see Conversational analytics for Bigtable overview. Feature The QueryData tool lets you query the data in your database using conversational language and build data agents.…
Feature You can use Knowledge Catalog to discover authorized views, logical views, and continuous materialized views. This integration lets you search for these granular data assets alongside your Bigtable instances and tables. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Manage data assets using Knowledge Catalog.
Feature You can configure Bigtable tables with microsecond timestamp granularity to capture and store high-frequency data. By supporting microsecond precision for cell timestamps, Bigtable helps you prevent data loss from write collisions in workloads with high event rates. This feature is generally available (GA) for instances in the Enterprise Plus edition. For more information, see Data type en…
Feature You can use Apache Avro schema bundles to query individual fields within Avro records stored as serialized bytes in Bigtable. You can query your Avro data using GoogleSQL for Bigtable, continuous materialized views, and logical views. This feature is in Preview.
Feature You can use Google Cloud Data Agent Kit to browse Bigtable instances and tables, design schemas, and run GoogleSQL queries from your IDE or coding agent. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Data Agent Kit is now GA: Bring Google Data Cloud to any coding agent.
Libraries Go1.58.0 (2026-09-25) Features all: Update supported go versions (#20520) (90413d3) bigtable: Support hot duration, disabled, and effective backup policy (#20573) (da2bfcc) Update API sources and regenerate (#20526) (e6f37a3) Update API sources and regenerate (#20570) (cc91d66) Update API sources and regenerate. (e6f37a3) Bug Fixes bigtable: Detect omitted MutateRows response entries in…
Feature You can use the Google Cloud console to create and manage protobuf schemas (schema bundles) for your Bigtable tables. You can also view schema bundle definitions in Bigtable Studio. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create and manage protobuf schemas.
Feature You can use the Google Cloud console to create, list, and query parameterized views for your Bigtable instances. You can also configure view parameters and run queries in Bigtable Studio. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create and manage parameterized views.
Libraries Go1.56.0 (2026-09-03) Features bigtable/accelerator: Add --user-agent flag to daemon (#20341) (6b33c06) bigtable/accelerator: Add daemon binary with identity verification (#20330) (2f9cf89) bigtable/accelerator: Add proxy channel scaffold owning a sessi… (#20310) (d65ca7d) bigtable/accelerator: Add stdin-EOF and parent-PID lifecycle wa… (#20328) (dc1c6ae) bigtable/accelerator: Add UDS se…
Feature You can use the Google Cloud console to create and manage aggregate column families for your Bigtable tables. You can also view and query aggregate column families in Bigtable Studio. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create and manage tables and Manage your data using Bigtable Studio.
Libraries Go1.53.0 (2026-08-27) Features bigtable/accelerator: Add --user-agent flag to daemon (#20341) (6b33c06) bigtable/accelerator: Add daemon binary with identity verification (#20330) (2f9cf89) bigtable/accelerator: Add proxy channel scaffold owning a sessi… (#20310) (d65ca7d) bigtable/accelerator: Add stdin-EOF and parent-PID lifecycle wa… (#20328) (dc1c6ae) bigtable/accelerator: Add UDS se…
Feature You can use the allow_incomplete_view query hint in SQL queries to read data from a continuous materialized view before its initial population finishes. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Read data during initial population.
Feature You can use the CLUSTER_ATTRIBUTE() filter to restrict continuous materialized view processing to specific clusters. This function lets you isolate views within an instance. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Non-deterministic SQL functions.
Libraries Go1.52.0 (2026-08-03) Features bigtable: Add AFE picker (Simple / LeastInFlight / LeastLatency) (#20204) (bcbf714) bigtable: Add ClientConfig.DisableSession to opt out of session backend (#20297) (7ee5e44) bigtable: Add getClientConfigDirectAccessChecker for session pools (#20209) (3b8d30a) bigtable: Add NoOpChannelPrimer for session channel pools (#20208) (d055a8a) bigtable: Add per-AFE…
Feature You can use Bigtable as a remote storage backend for LMCache. By storing the large language model (LLM) key-value (KV) cache externally in Bigtable, multiple AI serving instances can share and reuse precomputed attention tensors. This reduces compute overhead and significantly improves time-to-first-token (TTFT) for repeated prompts and shared documents. This feature is in Preview.
Feature You can use the Google Cloud console to manage row key schemas for your Bigtable tables. This feature is in Preview.
Feature The Bigtable remote MCP server supports the Bigtable Data API, which provides the execute_sql tool that you can use to query Bigtable data using natural language prompts. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Use the Bigtable remote MCP server.
Feature AI agents can use the list_hot_tablets Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool to programmatically query Bigtable cluster health to isolate resource-intensive tablets (hot tablets) and detect overutilized node CPUs. This feature is generally available (GA).
Feature You can use the Bigtable client library for Go to execute read jobs and queries using Data Boost.
Feature You can bind existing tags to Bigtable instances when you create an instance and use policies to enforce mandatory tag assignments. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Create an instance. Feature The Bigtable agent skill (bigtable-basics) is generally available (GA) in the public Google Agent Skills repository. This skill lets you equip AI agents with capabi…
Feature Bigtable supports direct connectivity, which bypasses the Google frontend and optimizes performance for application traffic that meets certain criteria. For more information, see Direct connectivity.
Feature You can create hot backups and modify all backups in Bigtable Studio. For more information, see Manage backups.
Libraries Go1.50.0 (2026-06-17) Features bigtable: Enable JWT (#19957) (af93528) bigtable: Generate Admin API client using selective gapic (#19962) (a37509d) bigtable: Refactor channel_pool_factory as we need to maintain two channel factory one for session and another for unary (#14652) (0c0b6ce) bigtable: Wrap admin client (#14534) (0bea4ba) Update API sources and regenerate (#19950) (c7607be)
Feature You can use the Bigtable Studio explorer to search for all resources except for authorized views and column families. For more information, see Manage your data using Bigtable Studio.
Libraries Gov1.49.0 (2026-06-10) Features enable new auth library and remove async refresh (#19943) (0d3697b2) add traffic diverter and table shim for bigtable (#14633) (2f3c9184) add virtual RPC descriptors (#14648) (5eedda18) add opensession descriptors for bigtable (#14647) (8968f4fd) update API sources and regenerate (#14701) (a9b79215) Bug Fixes retry unexpected EOF errors (#13157) (2b4ac429)…
Libraries Gov1.48.0 (2026-05-26) Features expose a client option to disable direct access: (#14626) (f22b29f5) Known Issue: heap growth on long-running clients (DirectAccess Eligible) Long-running clients using DirectAccess may observe steady heap growth caused by an upstream memory leak in the gRPC-Go xDS client (#14582). The leak is amplified in this release by the default connection recycler, w…
Feature As part of Bigtable Enterprise Plus edition, you can configure a retention period of up to 365 days for backups. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Bigtable backups overview.
Feature You can enable row-affinity routing for a standard app profile in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Create a standard app profile.
Feature You can use Aerospike migration tools to migrate data from Aerospike to Bigtable with minimal or zero downtime. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Migrate Aerospike to Bigtable.
Libraries Gov1.47.0 (2026-05-01) Known Issue: heap growth on long-running clients (DirectAccess Eligible) Long-running clients using DirectAccess may observe steady heap growth caused by an upstream memory leak in the gRPC-Go xDS client (#14582). The leak is amplified in this release by the default connection recycler, which recycles connections roughly every 45 minutes. Workarounds: Disable the c…