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August 12, 2026
You can use parameterized views in Bigtable to dynamically filter data ranges for logical views based on application context and mitigate SQL injection risks. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Parameterized views overview.
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.
August 10, 2026
Go
1.52.0 (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 sessionList for the two-tier session pool (#20224) (dbf0c3f)
- bigtable: Add protoRowToRow conversion helper for TableShim (#20257) (1297143)
- bigtable: Add Session debug surface (observability fields + methods) (#20211) (d8d3e16)
- bigtable: Add Session lifecycle (Start, Close, ForceClose, readLoop, heartBeatLoop) (#20215) (b9e53c6)
- bigtable: Add Session struct + state machine (#20117) (09acbb3)
- bigtable: Add session.Config.EnableDebug to gate sessionz debug state (#20247) (ce74c31)
- bigtable: Add SessionClient + SessionTable + lazyPool (#20228) (ab2c96c)
- bigtable: Add SessionPoolImpl (two-tier pool + scaling + debug) (#20225) (683eda8)
- bigtable: Rename session pool display to <resource-id>-<PERM> (#20248) (35e146e)
- bigtable: Route Client.Open()-returned *Table through the Diverter (#20273) (2b81c7d)
- bigtable: State-based classification for abnormal session close (#20243) (f2905b7)
- bigtable: TableShim fallback to classic on session UNIMPLEMENTED (#20269) (36540af)
- bigtable: TTL-on-idle cache for per-resource session.TableAPI (#20263) (00b2a49)
- bigtable: Wire Diverter on Client and route Open* via TableShim (#20256) (b32fbd7)
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: AFE picker latency signal — subtract poolWait and compute TransportLatency = wire − backend at source (#20281) (bb8c4d5)
- bigtable: Guard NewStream OnFinish against grpc-go double-fire (#20295) (b51da29)
- bigtable: Real per-resource pool teardown on sessionTable.Close + cache close-race gate (#20264) (599aea9)
- bigtable: Session.durations / session.uptime — set explicit histogram bucket boundaries (#20276) (97eee22)
- bigtable: SessionTableHandle self-heals across cache eviction (#20296) (0dd98cd)
- bigtable: Translate ctx errors to gRPC status on session vRPC (#20299) (0f3b2a5)
- bigtable: Treat PingAndWarm NotFound as a successful prime (#20219) (a1557ad)
Performance Improvements
July 30, 2026
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.
July 29, 2026
You can use the Google Cloud console to manage row key schemas for your Bigtable tables. This feature is in Preview.
July 27, 2026
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.
Go
1.51.0 (2026-07-23)
Features
- bigtable: Add ChainInterceptors and RetryingVRpc for vRPC pipeline (#20185) (c7a832a)
- bigtable: Add ClientConfigurationManager (#19986) (3a8f927)
- bigtable: Add debug tag counter (recordDebugTag / assertDebugTag) (#20114) (3c97590)
- bigtable: Add lazyPool helper for on-demand session pool opening (#20182) (f6ae3fb)
- bigtable: Add PeakEwma continuous time-decay latency tracker (#20187) (9d124ef)
- bigtable: Add PoolSizer for server-driven session pool capacity (#20189) (57ebbeb)
- bigtable: Add session package with SessionClient + SessionTableAPI interfaces (#20180) (4b82fd2)
- bigtable: Add Session primitives (AttemptOutcome, vRPC ctx, msgtype) (#20116) (e1011e2)
- bigtable: Add Session state enum (#19981) (0748972)
- bigtable: Add SessionThrottler / AdaptiveSessionThrottler for OpenSession pacing (#20184) (02e3c6d)
- bigtable: Add SessionThrottler / AdaptiveSessionThrottler for OpenSession pacing (#20184) (29be83e)
- bigtable: Add sessionTracer for per-Session lifecycle + vRPC metrics (#20190) (a466345)
- bigtable: Enable new auth library and JWT for instance admin client (#20013) (21c4a44)
- bigtable: Modularize channel priming behind a ChannelPrimer interface (#20027) (5214ab7)
- bigtable: Modularize Direct Access compatibility check (#19987) (a25e93d)
- o11y: Regenerate clients for LRO tracing (#20107) (779074e)
Bug Fixes
July 14, 2026
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).
July 09, 2026
You can use the Bigtable client library for Go to execute read jobs and queries using Data Boost.
July 07, 2026
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.
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 capabilities for Bigtable tasks, such as
provisioning instances and tables, designing schemas, querying data using
GoogleSQL and key-value APIs, and diagnosing performance issues or hotspots.
You can use Organization Policy Service custom constraints to manage specific operations on continuous materialized views. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Use custom organization policies.
July 06, 2026
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.
June 24, 2026
You can create hot backups and modify all backups in Bigtable Studio. For more information, see Manage backups.
June 22, 2026
Go
1.50.0 (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)
June 19, 2026
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.
June 15, 2026
Go
v1.49.0 (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
June 01, 2026
Go
v1.48.0 (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, which recycles connections roughly every 45 minutes.
Workarounds: - Disable the connection recycler: ```go cfg := bigtable.ClientConfig{DisableConnectionRecycler: true} client, err := bigtable.NewClientWithConfig(ctx, project, instance, cfg)
OR Disable the connpool via env var
CBT_BIGTABLE_CONN_POOL=falseOR upgrade to bigtable/v1.49.0 (or later), which fixes the problem by disabling connection recycler.
May 28, 2026
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.
May 18, 2026
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.
May 07, 2026
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.
May 04, 2026
Go
v1.47.0 (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 connection recycler: ```go cfg := bigtable.ClientConfig{DisableConnectionRecycler: true} client, err := bigtable.NewClientWithConfig(ctx, project, instance, cfg)
OR Disable the connpool via env var
CBT_BIGTABLE_CONN_POOL=falseOr upgrade to bigtable/v1.49.0 (or later), which fixes the problem by disabling connection recycler.
April 30, 2026
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.
April 23, 2026
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.
April 22, 2026
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.
Bigtable provides an in-memory tier as part of its hybrid storage architecture. This tier provides sub-millisecond read latency and high throughput for time-sensitive data with independent vertical scaling to handle traffic surges. The in-memory tier is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition in Preview. For more information, see In-memory tier overview.
Bigtable tiered storage limit increases from 32 TB to 64 TB per node. This expansion provides higher storage density to support retention of larger volumes of infrequently accessed data and is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition. Tiered storage is available in Preview.
As part of Bigtable editions, you can use Data Boost to read data from tiered storage and HDD clusters. This feature is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition and is generally available (GA).
As part of Bigtable editions, you can use Data Boost to run GoogleSQL queries. This feature is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition and is generally available (GA). For more information, see High-throughput SQL analysis with Data Boost.
As part of Bigtable editions, you can configure which cluster in a replicated instance is used for automated backups. This feature provides greater cost control and backup resource management. This feature is available only in the Enterprise Plus edition and is generally available (GA). For more information, see Bigtable backups overview.
April 20, 2026
You can use the Database Insights remote MCP server to analyze Bigtable's performance and system metrics. This feature is generally available (GA).
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.
Bigtable free trial instances are generally available (GA). These instances let you learn and explore Bigtable features for 90 days at no cost, providing a 1-node SSD cluster and up to 500 GB of storage. For more information, see Free trial instances overview.
The Bigtable remote MCP server is generally available (GA). The Bigtable remote MCP server lets you interact with Bigtable instances from LLMs, AI applications, and AI-enabled development platforms.
April 16, 2026
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.
April 15, 2026
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.
April 13, 2026
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.
Bigtable supports pipe syntax, an extension to GoogleSQL that lets you build simpler and more concise queries. This feature is generally available (GA).
Go
v1.46.0 (2026-04-09)
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 connection recycler: ```go cfg := bigtable.ClientConfig{DisableConnectionRecycler: true} client, err := bigtable.NewClientWithConfig(ctx, project, instance, cfg)
OR Disable the connpool via env var
CBT_BIGTABLE_CONN_POOL=falseOr upgrade to bigtable/v1.49.0 (or later), which fixes the problem by disabling connection recycler.
April 09, 2026
You can use Gemini in Bigtable Studio to help you write GoogleSQL queries. This feature is available in Preview. For more information, see Write SQL with Gemini assistance.
April 07, 2026
You can connect to Bigtable from Java applications and other reporting tools that support a generic JDBC adapter by using the Bigtable JDBC driver. This feature is generally available (GA).
You can use protocol buffer (protobuf) schemas to query individual fields within protobuf messages stored as bytes in Bigtable. You can query your protobuf data using GoogleSQL for Bigtable, continuous materialized views, logical views, or BigQuery external tables. This feature is generally available (GA).
April 06, 2026
March 30, 2026
You can view the details of Bigtable continuous materialized views in the Google Cloud console.
March 25, 2026
Bigtable client for Java has modernized its Admin API. For detailed migration steps and code examples, see Upgrading client libraries.
March 24, 2026
You can manage Bigtable tiered storage configuration in the Google Cloud console and view tiered storage metrics in system insights. For more information, see Create and manage tables.
March 23, 2026
Go
1.43.0 (2026-03-16)
Features
Add support for creating Instance with tags (#13459) (1bce843e)
support tiered storage (#13793) (39a25b92)
add handling of longupdown metrics aka gauge (#13871) (519ed9b0)
Use direct access when supported. Guarded by enabling… (#13873) (5ea1f5f9)
add preemptive connection recycler (#13860) (6b69ee38)
make downscalling less aggressive (#14123) (7ac72cc8)
add pacemaker in connpool (#13862) (9af047f7)
populate ip protocol for direct access checker and rename a method to be concise (#14011) (9c5e6551)
add connection factory to abstract connection (#13755) (b08ea15f)
make pow of 2 default lb policy (#14131) (b5f7bf27)
derive conn pool from resolver (#14147) (b903e299)
add load balancing penalty for channel (#14149) (bb649988)
cap increase in conn for dynamic chan pool (#14144) (e0701a46)
switch to rand v2 (#14008) (ee6f4251)
Bug Fixes
March 06, 2026
Bigtable tools in the Agent Development Kit (ADK) are generally available (GA). With these tools, you can build AI agents that interact with Bigtable to discover metadata about Bigtable tables and instances and execute LLM-powered SQL queries.
February 18, 2026
New best practices are available for securing generative AI agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Google Cloud databases. This guide covers key security measures like least privilege, native database controls, and secure agent design to help you build safer AI applications. For more information, see Best practices for securing agent interactions with Model Context Protocol.
You can migrate a machine learning feature management workload from Vertex AI Feature Store (Legacy) to a Bigtable instance. For more information, see Migrate from Vertex AI Feature Store (Legacy) to Bigtable.
February 17, 2026
You can use the Bigtable Admin API MCP server to enable agents and AI applications to perform a range of data-related tasks. This feature is in Preview.
February 13, 2026
You can use the Flink Bigtable connector version 0.3.2 to connect to Bigtable from Apache Flink version 2.1.0. Additionally, this version of the connector lets you specify the number of mutations to include in each batch sent to Bigtable. This feature is generally available (GA).
February 09, 2026
Go
1.42.0 (2026-02-04)
Features
add TieredStorageConfig to table admin api (PiperOrigin-RevId: 863493708) (611f2392)
add dynamic channel support (#2) (#13504) (65a3c4ec)
add ip protocol for bigtable connection (#13520) (6f86983e)
add metrics exporter for outstandingrpcs and perconnectionerror count (#13510) (7f1b36ac)
add client startup time metrics. (#13521) (8f90da38)
introduce prime() method and load counting based on unary,streaming and ability to remove connection (#13419) (c6773ceb)
Bug Fixes
handle client region and client host name based on ote… (#13752) (0429170f)
fix a nil pointer deference in remove connections when… (#13535) (9d2ba82e)
Performance Improvements
- use passthrough with emulator endpoint (#13739) (dafbca22)
February 02, 2026
Java
2.72.0 (2026-01-30)
Features
- Add GcRuleBuilder for safe GC rule construction (#2758) (4a99a8c)
- Handle StatusRuntimeException in CbtTestProxy, increase inbound message / metadata size (#2763) (3e27d28)
- Regenerate protos using protoc 4
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.66.0 (ca24007)
Dependencies
January 30, 2026
Bigtable has a unified, customizable system insights dashboard. This dashboard includes predefined metrics and other Google Cloud metrics. This feature is generally available (GA). For more information, see Customize the system insights dashboard.
January 21, 2026
Bigtable is available in the asia-southeast3 (Bangkok) region. For more
information, see Bigtable locations.
January 19, 2026
Java
2.71.0 (2026-01-15)
Features
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Add handling for gauge metrics (#2719) (87aa4d5)
- Create stub with BigtableClientContext so otels are closed (#2747) (3d0a6d9)
- Update BigtableChannelPool to use the background executor (#2753) (8f6e2df)
- Use the same background executor in otel reader and monitoring c… (#2746) (3a58f9b)
Dependencies
December 26, 2025
Continuous materialized views support up to five continuous materialized views per table. This lets you create multiple asynchronous secondary indexes on a table or have a mix of precomputed aggregate views and asynchronous secondary indexes on the same base table. For more information, see Continuous materialized views.
December 22, 2025
Python
2.35.0 (2025-12-16)
Features
add basic interceptor to client (#1206) (6561cfac)
Add encodings for STRUCT and the Timestamp type (72dfdc44)
add PeerInfo proto in Bigtable API (72dfdc44)
Add Type API updates needed to support structured keys in materialized views (72dfdc44)
support mTLS certificates when available (#1249) (ca20219c)
Bug Fixes
Java
2.71.0-rc1 (2025-12-19)
Features
- update with latest from main (#2740) (90e1a02)
- feat: Upgrade protobuf gen code to 4.33 (#2741) (2b1d201)
Dependencies
Go
1.41.0 (2025-12-15)
Features
add PeerInfo proto in Bigtable API (PiperOrigin-RevId: 829585900) (185951b3)
precompute featureflags in client and reuse (#13297) (3b3253ac)
Add experimental Bigtable connection pool with custom load balancing strategy. (#12882) (7aa96127)
Enable ALTS hard bound token in Bigtable w/ direct access (#13153) (90239341)
Enable routing cookie and attempt headers for enhanced retries (#12964) (96cfd47a)
Bug Fixes
fix project id sent in otel (#13286) (4865868c)
screaming uppercase metric status (#13484) (b35ee8fd)
Performance Improvements
- parallelize the exportTimeSeries function (#13004) (bafd691d)
December 15, 2025
December 12, 2025
In the Google Cloud console, you can import data into Bigtable using the Dataflow job builder, a web interface for building and running Dataflow pipelines. This integration provides a pre-populated template to import data from Pub/Sub to Bigtable. You can also create a custom job to import data from other sources. For more information, see Import and export data.
November 24, 2025
Java
2.69.0 (2025-11-17)
Features
- bigtable: Add internal grpc subconnections metric and add outstanding rpcs to INTERNAL_VIEW (#2700) (e3e6e99)
- bigtable: Expose a metric to track the number of outstanding rpcs (unary , streaming) in channel pool (#2696) (140a1ad)
- bigtable: Populate alts field in channel entry (#2702) (1bfb763)
- Enable ALTS hard bound token in Bigtable w/ direct access (#2695) (d12b37d)
Java
2.70.0 (2025-11-18)
Features
- Add PeerInfo proto in Bigtable API (0736694)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.64.1 (0736694)
Dependencies
Documentation
Java
2.70.0 (2025-11-18)
Features
- Add PeerInfo proto in Bigtable API (0736694)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.64.1 (0736694)
Dependencies
Documentation
November 03, 2025
You can use protocol buffer (protobuf) schemas to query individual fields within protobuf messages stored as bytes in Bigtable. First, create and manage your protobuf schemas. Then, query your protobuf data using GoogleSQL for Bigtable or BigQuery external tables. This feature is in Preview.
October 28, 2025
You can use Cloud KMS Autokey in the Google Cloud console to automate the creation and use of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) in Bigtable clusters.
October 27, 2025
Java
2.68.0 (2025-10-22)
Features
- Add Type API updates needed to support structured keys in materialized views (469290e)
Bug Fixes
- Add ReadRows/SampleRowKeys bindings for materialized views (469290e)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.62.3 (469290e)
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.63.0 (ed6c03f)
- Don't use String.format in Preconditions messages (#2691) (62a1812)
- Fixed the bigtableadmin API name for snippet region tags and possibly other GAPIC attributes (469290e)
Dependencies
Python
2.34.0 (2025-10-16)
Features
Bigtable provides vector and key-value store integrations for LangChain, an LLM orchestration framework. For more information, see Build LLM-powered applications using LangChain and Perform Maximal Marginal Relevance search with LangChain on Bigtable.
October 20, 2025
You can save queries and then view and manage the saved queries in Bigtable Studio. This feature is in Preview.
October 13, 2025
October 07, 2025
The Cassandra-Bigtable proxy adapter, which lets you connect your Apache Cassandra-based applications to Bigtable, is generally available (GA).
You can connect to Bigtable from Java applications and other reporting tools that support a generic JDBC adapter by using the Bigtable JDBC driver. This feature is available in Preview.
October 06, 2025
You can optimize storage with Bigtable tiered storage, reduce storage costs, and retain data for longer. This feature is available in Preview.
September 29, 2025
Go
1.40.1 (2025-09-26)
Features
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Release bigtable as 1.40.1 (#12961) (33e1474)
- bigtable: Use stable stats.NewMetricSet (#12941) (2c713d7)
1.40.0 (2025-09-22)
Features
Java
2.67.0 (2025-09-24)
Features
- Idle channel eviction (#2651) (70c05c9)
- Load balancing options for BigtableChannelPool (#2667) (5adaa84)
Bug Fixes
- Add missing break; to PROTO and ENUM value type check (#2672) (337e432)
- Remove beta api annotation for query paginator (#2660) (f68a1fa)
Dependencies
September 15, 2025
September 01, 2025
Java
2.65.1 (2025-08-27)
Dependencies
Go
1.39.0 (2025-08-28)
Features
- bigtable/admin: Add tags field to Instance proto (stable branch) (a846564)
- bigtable/spanner: Allow disable gRPC DirectPath deps (#12469) (2205d27)
- bigtable: Add client epoch for each call (#12685) (c9eac01)
- bigtable: Add Idempotency to Cloud Bigtable MutateRowRequest API (98ba6f0)
- bigtable: Add Idempotency to Cloud Bigtable MutateRowsRequest API (ac4970b)
- bigtable: Adding support to schema bundles (#12516) (688eb13)
- bigtable: Create first response latencies instrument (#12706) (6f34867)
- bigtable: Expose directaccess via a env variable (#12684) (0306910)
- bigtable: Expose pinger in go client (#12683) (a330457)
- bigtable: First_response_latencies and connectivity_error_count metrics (#10616) (3054593)
- bigtable: Publish Proto and Enum types to CBT data API (83f894e)
- bigtable: Record client_blocking_latencies (#12698) (5f03fb3)
- bigtable: Support universe domain (#12567) (fc59e39)
- bigtable: Update ListSchemaBundles to returns only names (#12563) (83ea7c4)
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Add ReadRows/SampleRowKeys bindings for materialized views (7616e81)
- bigtable: Fix NoopMetricsProvider panic (#12709) (8c6da0d)
- bigtable: Ignore errors while creating monitoring client and disable metrics (#12708) (2346cf1)
- bigtable: Update routing_parameters.path_template (c574e28)
Performance Improvements
Documentation
Java
2.65.1 (2025-08-27)
Dependencies
August 28, 2025
Bigtable tools are available in Agent Development Kit (ADK). With these tools, you can build AI agents that can interact with Bigtable data and metadata in the following ways:
- Obtain metadata about Bigtable tables and instances.
- Execute LLM-powered SQL queries.
August 18, 2025
August 11, 2025
August 04, 2025
You can add the Cassandra to Bigtable client for Java library to your Java project from the Maven Central repository.
Java
2.63.0 (2025-07-30)
Features
- Add Idempotency to Cloud Bigtable MutateRowsRequest API (bc58b4f)
- Add port as a parameter for the bigtable emulator (#2645) (5acd3dc)
- Add type support for Proto and Enum (bc58b4f)
- Publish Proto and Enum types to CBT data API (ace12d5)
- Selective GAPIC autogeneration for Python Bigtable Admin (e219c38)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.60.2 (e219c38)
- Update routing_parameters.path_template (e219c38)
Dependencies
Documentation
- Sync generated comments from the API Protos (bc58b4f)
July 31, 2025
Logical views for Bigtable are now generally available (GA). Logical views let you save a SQL query as a specific, shareable view of your data—even with a flexible schema—and then control who has permission to see the results.
July 21, 2025
July 07, 2025
Go
1.38.0 (2025-06-27)
Features
- bigtable/admin: Add deletion_protection support for LVs (a95a0bf)
- bigtable/admin: Add SchemaBundles API (116a33a)
- bigtable: Add application blocking latencies (#11349) (8f145ed)
- bigtable: Add DeletionProtection support for Logical Views (#11895) (ed488b9)
- bigtable: Connectivity_error_count client side metric (#12438) (dd45fd7)
- bigtable: NewServerWithListener (#12408) (59ea0de)
- bigtable: Use delay from RetryInfo (#11955) (0510711)
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Correct the Bigtable monitoring client options (#12410) (bd966bc)
- bigtable: Fix: upgrade gRPC service registration func (6a871e0)
- bigtable: Retry RST stream errors (#11477) (df43b4a)
Performance Improvements
Documentation
- bigtable/admin: Improved comment formatting and product naming (116a33a)
When you undelete a table, Bigtable automatically enables deletion protection for that table.
June 30, 2025
June 24, 2025
You can use Data Boost to analyze your Bigtable data with BigQuery without impacting the performance of the clusters that handle your application traffic. This feature is generally available (GA).
June 09, 2025
Java
2.60.0 (2025-06-06)
Features
- Improve error message on malformed struct (#2592) (7f5fdf0)
- Run ExecuteQuery conformance tests (#2557) (0bbc083)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.59.0 (65782aa)
- Ensure that multiple instances of a client in the same process dont clobber each other (#2590) (8d3dca4)
Dependencies
May 29, 2025
The Bigtable Spark connector supports Scala versions 2.12 and 2.13 in all connector versions and has been updated as follows:
- Connector versions 0.5.0 and later support dynamic columns.
- Connector versions 0.6.0 and later support custom authentication providers and efficient joins with data sources.
May 27, 2025
You can delete logical and continuous materialized views in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Delete a logical view or Delete a continuous materialized view.
May 26, 2025
May 19, 2025
May 13, 2025
You can export query results from Bigtable Studio. This feature is generally available (GA).
For more information, see Manage your data using Bigtable Studio.
May 12, 2025
May 07, 2025
You can use Data Boost when you analyze your Bigtable data with BigQuery. This feature is available in Preview.
May 05, 2025
Java
2.58.0 (2025-04-28)
Features
- Add deletion_protection support for LVs (43c97a3)
- bigtable: Add integration tests for Materialized/Logical Views (#2518) (4d3a7e6)
Bug Fixes
Java
2.58.1 (2025-04-28)
Bug Fixes
Java
2.58.0 (2025-04-28)
Features
- Add deletion_protection support for LVs (43c97a3)
- bigtable: Add integration tests for Materialized/Logical Views (#2518) (4d3a7e6)
Bug Fixes
April 29, 2025
Similarity vector search in Bigtable by finding the K-nearest neighbors is generally available (GA).
The MCP Toolbox for Databases includes a Bigtable connector. This feature is available in Preview.
April 25, 2025
Bigtable is supported by Database Center, which is generally available (GA). The Database Center now provides performance, availability, and data protection in the form of recommender-related health issues. You can also view these performance recommendations in Recommendation Hub.
April 21, 2025
April 10, 2025
The Bigtable CQL client library for Java is available in Preview.
The Cassandra-Bigtable proxy adapter, which lets you connect your Apache Cassandra-based applications to Bigtable, is available in Preview.
The Bigtable Kafka sink, which lets you directly connect Apache Kafka and Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, is now generally available (GA).
April 09, 2025
Continuous materialized views for Bigtable are available in Preview.
SQL support for Bigtable is generally available (GA), including an UNPACK feature that lets you read time series data in a tabular format.
Logical views of Bigtable tables are available in Preview.
The Bigtable Studio query editor is generally available (GA).
April 07, 2025
Java
2.57.2 (2025-03-31)
Bug Fixes
Go
1.36.0 (2025-03-31)
Features
- bigtable/admin: Add MaterializedViews and LogicalViews APIs (b323f88)
- bigtable/admin: Add MaterializedViews and LogicalViews APIs (dd0d1d7)
- bigtable/admin: Publish row_key_schema fields in table proto and relevant admin APIs to setup a table with a row_key_schema (3f23a91)
- bigtable: Add Bind function to bind query params (#11862) (24c5ae0)
- bigtable: Add datatypes for GoogleSQL (#11816) (5a9eb10)
- bigtable: Add Execute method to execute GoogleSQL queries (#11883) (0e53dcd)
- bigtable: Add MaterializedViewName to ReadRows and SampleRowKeys (b323f88)
- bigtable: Add methods to read ResultRow (#11924) (8b8ca9e)
- bigtable: Add PrepareQuery api and update ExecuteQuery to support it (dd0d1d7)
- bigtable: Add PrepareStatement to run GoogleSQL queries (#11829) (ea00b17)
- bigtable: Add support for data APIs for Materialized Views (#11796) (f5ae93b)
- bigtable: Add support for logical views (#11792) (630d751)
- bigtable: Add support for materialized views for admin client (#11793) (640be05)
- bigtable: Adding node scaling factor (b680164)
- bigtable: Disable MV and LV tests (#11827) (42dca03)
- bigtable: Row key schema support in admin client (#11777) (4158bac)
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Allow GC updates on emulated aggregate column family (#11499) (0682bfa)
- bigtable: Update golang.org/x/net to 0.37.0 (1144978)
Documentation
Java
2.57.3 (2025-04-01)
Bug Fixes
March 31, 2025
March 26, 2025
The Monitoring page in the Google Cloud console for Bigtable has been renamed to System insights.
March 24, 2025
Java
2.56.0 (2025-03-18)
Features
- bigtable: Add support for Logical Views in Admin API (#2519) (6dac3fd)
- bigtable: Add support for Materialized Views in Admin API (#2511) (55cd719)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.55.1 (7992af0)
Dependencies
Python
2.30.0 (2025-03-18)
Features
Bug Fixes
March 17, 2025
Java
2.55.0 (2025-03-11)
Features
- Add MaterializedViewName to ReadRows and SampleRowKeys (1763c6e)
- Add MaterializedViews and LogicalViews APIs (1763c6e)
- Add MaterializedViews and LogicalViews APIs (7340527)
- Add PrepareQuery api and update ExecuteQuery to support it (1763c6e)
- bigtable: Add support for data APIs for materialized views (#2508) (6310a63)
- large-row-skip: Added large-row-skip-callable with configurable rowadapter (#2509) (ba193ef)
- Next release from main branch is 2.55.0 (#2506) (4e45837)
- Publish row_key_schema fields in table proto and relevant admin APIs to setup a table with a row_key_schema (7340527)
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.54.0 (91e4369)
Documentation
- Fixed formatting of resource path strings (7340527)
March 11, 2025
You can use Cloud KMS Autokey to automate the creation and use of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) in Bigtable clusters. This feature is generally available (GA).
Data lineage for Dataflow jobs is generally available (GA) in the Bigtable Beam connector (BigtableIO) and the Bigtable HBase Beam connector (CloudBigtableIO). For more information, see Tracking lineage.
March 10, 2025
March 04, 2025
Bigtable is available in the europe-north2 (Stockholm) region. For more information, see Bigtable locations.
March 03, 2025
February 24, 2025
Bigtable Data Boost, a serverless compute service designed for high-throughput read jobs and queries, is generally available (GA).
Automated backup for Bigtable is generally available (GA). For more information, see the Backups overview.
February 17, 2025
February 10, 2025
February 03, 2025
Tags data for Bigtable instances is now included in Cloud Billing data, letting you use tagged Bigtable instances to gain visibility into your resource usage and spending. For more information, see Understand standard and detailed usage cost data.
January 27, 2025
Go
1.35.0 (2025-01-22)
Features
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Allow nil condition in conditional mutation (#11457) (d83bc05)
- bigtable: Do not retry conditional mutate (#11437) (ce8c9b1)
- bigtable: Mutate groups even after first error (#11434) (6ffe32b)
- bigtable: Retry correct mutations (#11388) (ca2c4e3)
- bigtable: Track number of readrows to set rowsLimit in subsequent requests (#10213) (abb615e)
January 20, 2025
January 13, 2025
January 06, 2025
Go
1.34.0 (2025-01-02)
Features
- bigtable/admin: Add support for Cloud Bigtable Node Scaling Factor for CBT Clusters (7250d71)
- bigtable: Add feature flags proto for Direct Access (2c83297)
- bigtable: Async refresh dry run in parallel with sync refresh (#11066) (169e309)
Bug Fixes
- bigtable: Correct the 'method' label value (#11350) (6aa27dc)
- bigtable: Resolve discrepancy between server and client qps (#11224) (c500179)
- bigtable: Update golang.org/x/net to v0.33.0 (e9b0b69)
- bigtable: Update google.golang.org/api to v0.203.0 (8bb87d5)
- bigtable: WARNING: On approximately Dec 1, 2024, an update to Protobuf will change service registration function signatures to use an interface instead of a concrete type in generated .pb.go files. This change is expected to affect very few if any users of this client library. For more information, see https://togithub.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/11020. (8bb87d5)
Documentation
December 23, 2024
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
Java
Changes for google-cloud-bigtable
2.51.0 (2024-12-17)
Features
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.51.0 (a5444a5)
- Move resource detection to the first export to avoid slow start (#2450) (cec010a)
Dependencies
December 18, 2024
You can now enable 2x node scaling when you create a new Bigtable cluster. This cluster configuration lets Bigtable treat two standard nodes as a larger, single compute node, and the cluster is always scaled in increments of two nodes. This feature is generally available (GA).
The Preview of Bigtable automated backup has been expanded to let you configure the backup retention period in automated backup policies, and the default is now seven days. For more information, see Update an automated backup policy.
December 17, 2024
You can use Organization Policy Service custom constraints to manage specific operations on Bigtable resources. For more information, see Use custom organization policies. This feature is generally available (GA).
December 16, 2024
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
Java
Changes for google-cloud-bigtable
2.50.0 (2024-12-06)
Features
December 12, 2024
Bigtable is now supported by Database Center, which is in Preview. Database Center is an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet. With this release, Database Center displays health issues for Bigtable availability and data protection. For more information, see Database health issues.
December 11, 2024
You can now enable row-affinity routing to let Bigtable automatically ensure that single-row requests for a given row are routed to the same cluster. This feature is generally available (GA).
You can now use the Google Cloud console to create and manage authorized views of your Bigtable tables.
You can now select a row in a Bigtable Studio query results table to view formatted row data. For more information, see Query your data with SQL in the query editor.
December 09, 2024
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
December 02, 2024
To create a Bigtable instance, a user or account must be a principal in a role with the permission bigtable.clusters.create. For more information, see Bigtable access control with IAM.
November 25, 2024
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
Java
Changes for google-cloud-bigtable
2.48.0 (2024-11-19)
Features
Bug Fixes
- deps: Update the Java code generator (gapic-generator-java) to 2.50.0 (6b35b47)
- Make client side metrics tag in sync with server (#2401) (bba4183)
Dependencies
November 18, 2024
You can now create a Data Boost app profile and view Data Boost metrics in the Google Cloud console. Data Boost for Bigtable is in Preview. For more information, see Create and configure app profiles.
Bigtable is now available in the northamerica-south1 (Mexico) region. For more information, see Bigtable locations.
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
Java
Changes for google-cloud-bigtable
2.47.0 (2024-11-13)
Features
- Add an experimental feature to skip waiting for trailers for unary ops (#2404) (cf58f26)
- Add internal "deadline remaining" client side metric #2341 (#2370) (75d4105)
Bug Fixes
Python
Changes for google-cloud-bigtable
2.27.0 (2024-11-12)
Features
- Add support for Cloud Bigtable Node Scaling Factor for CBT Clusters (#1023) (0809c6a)
- Surface
retryparam toTable.read_rowapi (#982) (a8286d2)
Bug Fixes
November 04, 2024
A weekly digest of client library updates from across the Cloud SDK.
October 21, 2024
October 08, 2024
Hot backups, optimized backups to restore your data to production performance availability more efficiently, are now generally available (GA). For more information, see Backups overview.