According to a blog post on September 21st, Google Cloud’s BigQuery service has added data from 11 blockchain networks to its dataset. The newly added networks include Avalanche, Arbitrum, Cronos, Ethereum’s Goerli testnet, Fantom, Near, Optimism, Polkadot, Polygon’s mainnet, Polygon’s Mumbai testnet, and Tron.
BigQuery is Google’s data warehousing service that allows companies to store and query their data. It also provides access to various public datasets that can be queried, including Google Trends, U.S. Census Bureau data, Google Analytics, and more.
In 2018, Google introduced a Bitcoin dataset as part of the service, and later that year, they added Ethereum. They continued to expand their blockchain coverage in February 2019, adding Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, and Zcash. The announcement on September 21st means that BigQuery now incorporates data from a total of 19 blockchain networks.
In addition to adding these new chains, Google has also implemented a new feature to make blockchain data querying more accessible. Through a series of user-defined functions, the team has provided methods to handle the long decimal results commonly found in blockchain data. In their blog post, Google stated that these new features would “give customers access to longer decimal places for their blockchain data and reduce rounding errors in calculations.”
Google Cloud is increasingly focusing on blockchain technology in 2023. On July 7th, it partnered with Volt, a Lightning Network infrastructure provider. It also collaborated with the Web3 startup Orderly Network on September 14th to help provide off-chain components for decentralized finance.