Google Cloud today shared how three unique startups have adopted its “Data Cloud,” using services such as Google BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Vertex AI as the foundation of their data-centric businesses.

In a blog post, Gerrit Kazmaier, vice president and general manager of database and analytics at Google Cloud, highlighted how Ocient Inc., SingleStore Inc. and Glean Technologies Inc. are employing the company’s big data technologies to create entirely new products that transform information into real-time value for their customers.

“Data is one of the single most valuable assets for organizations today,” Kazmaier said. “It can empower businesses to do incredible things like create better views of health for hospitals, enable people to share timely insights with their colleagues, and — increasingly — be a foundational building block for startups who build their products and businesses in a data cloud.”

Ocient is a hyperscale data warehouse and analytics startup that enables enterprises to carry out massively parallelized processing of data to obtain real-time insights from trillions of data records. Its data warehouse architecture is designed with compute that’s adjacent to storage on NVMe solid-state drives.

That enables continuous ingestion of information from high-volume datasets. It also employs intra-database extract, transact and load and machine learning to help customers transform, load and then analyze data queries that are processed at incredibly high speeds, with what Ocient says is superior price-performance.

Given the massive scale of its platform, the company relies on Google Cloud Storage for file loading, Google Compute Engine to run its analytics tools, and Google’s networking tools to ensure high scalability, better security and more rapid analytics.

“In just three months, Ocient more than doubled its Google Cloud usage in order to support the transformation workloads of enterprises on Google Cloud,” Kazmaier said.

SingleStore is another fast-growing startup that has become increasingly reliant on Google Cloud. The company, which recently launched its platform on the Google Cloud Marketplace, offers a service that provides low-latency access to large datasets. It helps to simplify application development for developers by bringing transactions and analytics into a single, unified data engine, known as SingleStoreDB.

“Singlestore integrates with Google Cloud services to enable a scalable and highly available implementation,” Kazmaier explained. “In addition to growing its business by reaching more customers on Google Cloud Marketplace, SingleStore is today announcing the establishment of its go-to-market strategy with Google Cloud, which will further enable them to deliver their database solution to customers around the world.”

As for Glean, it’s using Google Cloud’s data services to scale a powerful, unified search tool that’s designed to search and process queries across an organization’s entire set of deployed applications, according to the company. The tool can understand behavior, context, language and relationships to provide immediate personalized answers to queries relating to any workplace app. Glean revealed that it constructed its search and knowledge discovery tools using a combination of Google Cloud services, including Cloud SQL, Google Kubernetes Engine, Vertex AI, Dataflow and BigQuery.

By leaning on Google’s services exclusively, the company says, it has become more agile and can iterate much faster. Its developer team can focus more of its time on improving the performance of its search tools, the relevance of its answers, and improving its ease of use.

Today, Glean announced that it’s now entering into a formal partnership with Google Cloud that will see its search tools made available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

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