Each day at Cube we connect with builders around the world from every industry. These people range from founders and first engineer hires at scrappy startups to enterprise data architects and senior leadership at the largest companies in the world. They have a diverse set of experiences, and are working to solve a wide range of problems.
One consistent thing we hear from most of them is that they value choice and control in their data platform. This idea is foundational to us here at Cube. We want to empower builders of all kinds to solve their data management challenges, with the universal semantic layer, using any combination of tools they choose. From the very beginning, Google has been a strong partner with Cube, helping us deliver on this promise.
In this post, we’d like to share the newest development in our partnership with Google, as well as a recap of the progress we’ve made together and the breadth of Google Cloud Platform technologies that Cube Cloud natively integrates with.
Perform Live Queries on Any Modeled Data in Google Sheets
Today, we are launching Cube Cloud for Sheets, a Google Sheets Add-on, enabling users to connect to and reuse trusted data assets and perform live queries on governed data. Spreadsheets remain a common entry point for users of all levels of technical expertise engaging with analytics and we’re excited to enable them to solve their data challenges with the tool they are most comfortable with.
With this add-on users can access data from any Cube Cloud supported data source and perform multidimensional analysis with pivot table functionality. Cube Cloud for Sheets expands data source connectivity in Google Sheets beyond its default capabilities of BigQuery and Looker. Adding filters, columns, rows and measures is easy with an intuitive user interface provided in a Google Sheets sidebar.
This integration eliminates the need for pre-processing, ensures real-time data access, and streamlines complex data transformations, allowing analysts to focus on deriving insights. The feature is available to Cube Cloud accounts of the Premium tier or higher, and it can be found in the Google Workspace Marketplace.
Cube Cloud Now Available on the Google Cloud Marketplace
Cube Cloud has been available on GCP in many regions around the world since the early days of the company, but recently we took the next step in partnership and listed Cube Cloud in the Google Cloud Marketplace. Purchasing software via cloud marketplaces has many well known benefits, such as speedier procurement, consolidated billing, simplified EULA terms, and accessing existing committed spend. These all ring true for purchasing Cube Cloud via the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Connect Cube Cloud to Data and Analytics Services on Google Cloud Platform
In addition to flexible purchasing and infrastructure support, Cube Cloud also deeply integrates with many data and analytics services on Google Cloud Platform.
BigQuery, the Google cloud data warehouse, is the 3rd most common data source that customers of Cube Cloud use. They are great compliments for each other. In fact we use BigQuery and Cube Cloud for our own internal analytics infrastructure here at Cube.
Customers frequently pair Cube and BigQuery to bring stronger governance, metric and semantic consolidation and improved performance to their internal business intelligence initiatives. For those of a lakehouse persuasion, Cube supports connectivity to Dataproc, for managed SparkSQL, Presto and Trino.
Cube also supports many of the different relational database engines within GCP, such as all flavors of Google Cloud SQL, including Postgres, MySQL and SQL Server engines. We also support AlloyDB as a data source. Our customers frequently combine these technologies to enable embedded analytics, customer facing dashboards, or AI use cases without impacting performance of an operational product database by pre-aggregating data in Cube Store and serving applications from our API endpoints with caching.
A longer list of supported GCP services can be found in our documentation including many services that are handy for monitoring, authentication and enterprise security.
Integrate More Deeply with Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace Services
I’m proud of all of the progress we’ve made in deepening our relationship with Google and supporting builders of all kinds in their analytic endeavors. At any stage of your company's growth, Google and Cube can help you deliver the governed, managed and optimized data applications your users need. Contact sales to learn more about how you can integrate more deeply with the Google ecosystem.