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.
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.
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.
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…
Feature You can use Bigtable agent skills to let AI agents assist with Bigtable-related tasks, such as schema design, generating SQL queries, and infrastructure management.
Feature You can use window functions with GoogleSQL in Bigtable to perform advanced analytic operations over multiple table rows. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Window functions.
Feature The Bigtable editions feature is generally available (GA). Bigtable editions introduces advanced features in performance, analytic query capability, and resource management. You can choose between the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus edition to select the right capabilities for your workloads. For more information, see Editions overview. Feature Bigtable provides an in-memory tier as part of…
Feature You can use the Database Insights remote MCP server to analyze Bigtable's performance and system metrics. This feature is generally available (GA). Feature Bigtable continuous materialized views are generally available (GA). These views let you create precomputed tables that Bigtable automatically keeps in sync with your source data for low-latency queries and real-time insights. Feature B…
Feature You can stream messages from Pub/Sub directly to a Bigtable table using Bigtable subscriptions. This feature lets you write streaming messages to Bigtable without needing a separate subscriber such as Dataflow. This feature is available in Preview.
Feature Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) names remain unchanged. For more information about how Bigtable metadata interacts with Knowledge Catalog, see Manage data assets using Knowledge Catalog.
Feature You can now use GoogleSQL geography functions to work with geospatial data in Bigtable. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Work with geospatial data and Geography functions reference. Feature Bigtable supports pipe syntax, an extension to GoogleSQL that lets you build simpler and more concise queries. This feature is generally available (GA).