AlloyDB Lakehouse Federation: Unified access to BigQuery and Google Cloud Lakehouse
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Paul Ramsey demonstrates AlloyDB's Lakehouse Federation capability for a fictional financial services firm, showing how to combine vector search over 3.2 million text chunks from 10-K filings with BigQuery reference data and Iceberg/Parquet data lakes. The demo covers hybrid querying, automatic pushdown of filters and aggregates to BigQuery, and one-click reverse ETL for unified access to transactions, archives, and real-time analytics.