Google announced on February 6, 2026 that its open‑source SQL analysis framework ZetaSQL will be renamed GoogleSQL to unify the project name with the official language spec, eliminate community confusion, and clarify its role in the Google data ecosystem without changing any code or functionality.
This article details a real‑world migration of a Southeast Asian tech group’s data warehouse from Google BigQuery to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute, describing the challenges of converting 100,000 SQL scripts, the AST‑driven and LLM‑assisted automation pipeline, rule‑engine iteration, quality control, and the measurable performance and cost benefits achieved.
This article details GoTerra's massive six‑month, 50 PB migration from GCP BigQuery to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute, covering project scope, technical challenges such as complex data types, partition strategies, and high‑speed requirements, and explaining how the MaxCompute Migration Service (MMS) solved them with innovative architecture, scheduling, and data‑reorder techniques.
This article details the challenges of migrating 100,000+ SQL statements from BigQuery to MaxCompute for a leading Southeast Asian tech group, explains the new MaxCompute SQL syntax, auto‑partition and ingestion‑time tables, enhanced built‑in functions, and the BigQuery compatibility mode that ensures seamless query behavior.
The article explains how PostgreSQL was crowned DB‑Engines 2023 Database Management System of the Year, outlines the ranking methodology, highlights PostgreSQL’s long‑term success, and introduces the runner‑up Databricks and third‑place Google BigQuery along with a history of past winners.
DB‑Engines named Snowflake the 2022 Database of the Year, highlighting its cloud‑native architecture, rapid popularity growth, and strong competition with Google BigQuery and PostgreSQL, while also explaining the ranking methodology and offering a historical view of past winners.
This case study explains how a client with a 2‑billion‑row MySQL table avoided disk exhaustion and poor query performance by streaming data through Kafka to Google BigQuery, partitioning the data, and cleaning it to reclaim storage—all without downtime.
This article details a real‑world solution for migrating more than two billion MySQL records to Google BigQuery by streaming data through Kafka, employing partitioned tables, data filtering, and incremental migration to avoid downtime and reduce storage costs.
Facing a MySQL table with over 2 billion continuously growing rows, the team designed a cloud‑based solution using Kafka to stream data into Google BigQuery, applied partitioned schemas and data cleaning to improve query performance, reduce storage costs, and avoid downtime.
