Google Adds Ethereum Blockchain Dataset to Its Big Data Analytics Platform

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The Google Cloud team has officially made the Ethereum dataset available in BigQuery, the company's big data warehouse for analytics, according to a post published on Google's official blog August 29.

The Ethereum blockchain data is posted in the dataset and updated on a daily basis.

As the team explains, the tool was created to help make business decisions, prioritize improvements to the Ethereum architecture itself, and balance sheet adjustments, e.g. how quickly a wallet can be rebalanced.

As Google explains, the Ethereum blockchain contains APIs for random functions such as checking transaction status, looking up wallet-transaction associations, and checking wallet balances.

Screenshot of Ethereum transfers and transactions costs in 2018.

The software based on Google Cloud synchronizes the Ethereum blockchain to computers running Parity - a UK-based provider of infrastructure software for interacting with the Ethereum network, which performs a daily extraction of data from the Ethereum blockchain ledger and stores date-partitioned data to BigQuery for exploration.

One of them relates to CryptoKitties - a game based on the Ethereum blockchain that is the most popular ERC-721 smart contract by transaction count.

Google has already expanded into blockchain-based tools and services this year.

In February, the company created a similar tool for the Bitcoin blockchain to visualize transactions, detect anomalies, and extract necessary data from the blockchain ledger.

As Cointelegraph wrote in July, Google also partnered with two blockchain-focused firms, Digital Asset and BlockApps, to offer new distributed ledger technology solutions on Google's Cloud Platform.

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