Spatial Analytics for BigQuery

Analyze, visualize, and develop with CARTO running natively in Google Cloud’s BigQuery.

Trusted by the world's leading geospatial analysts

The most advanced geospatial tools, made native to BigQuery

Connect CARTO to BigQuery and forget about moving data out of your lakehouse to solve your geospatial needs. 

The CARTO platform is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace - start getting the most out of your spatial data in BigQuery today!

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Get inspired by our customers

“Migrating to CARTO’s cloud-native Location Intelligence platform was, without doubt, the right choice for us. The enhanced analytical capabilities of CARTO have opened up our business to new possibilities for more advanced spatial use cases. More than 700 active users of our tools can now work more efficiently to deliver faster and more accurate services themselves.”

Jozef Sorocin
Special Projects at g-Xperts GmbH
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FEATURED STORIES

Get inspired by our customers

“Migrating to CARTO’s cloud-native Location Intelligence platform was, without doubt, the right choice for us. The enhanced analytical capabilities of CARTO have opened up our business to new possibilities for more advanced spatial use cases. More than 700 active users of our tools can now work more efficiently to deliver faster and more accurate services themselves.”

Jozef Sorocin
Special Projects at g-Xperts GmbH
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"Working with the CARTO platform has helped take our Location Intelligence strategy to the next level. The platform’s rich set of data analytics features and cloud-native approach helps us deliver outstanding insights that fuel our strategy, execution, and performance measurement."

Michal Klis
Head of Location Intelligence at Allegro
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Run advanced spatial analytics seamlessly in BigQuery

Simplify your analytics with Workflows - our low-code tool for automating spatial analysis. Customize & extend your workflows and get direct access to Google Cloud features like Earth Engine and BigQuery ML - all inside your lakehouse.

Combine the power of BigQuery with +100 advanced spatial functions

Extend BigQuery's capabilities with our Analytics Toolbox - a suite of user defined functions (UDFs) for performing advanced spatial analysis and data enrichment natively in your lakehouse.

Unmatched data visualization capabilities

Build rich, dynamic data visualizations directly from BigQuery with Builder. Visualize billions of data points with ease. Create and share interactive dashboards that take your data storytelling to the next level. We fully integrate with Google Maps.

Accelerated, scalable app development

Reduce the time and cost to develop spatial applications on top of BigQuery without the need for ETLs or any intermediate mapping server.

Integrated with Google Maps Platform



Applications developed with CARTO can also be seamlessly integrated with Google Maps Platform visualizations, libraries, and APIs, optimizing the time-to-market and user experience of your applications.

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Enterprise-grade security all the time

Create secure connections to your data in Google Cloud's BigQuery, using technologies like OAuth or Workload Identity Federation, and integrate your own SSO to share your analysis safely. Get the same versatile experience in your own controlled environment, compatible with VPC architectures, with CARTO Self-Hosted.

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More than 12,000 datasets to enhance your analysis

Our Data Observatory gives you frictionless access to thousands of curated spatial datasets so you can enrich your own data, and deepen your analysis. Take away the pain of data discovery, evaluation & ETLing. Spend more time on the analysis that answers your most important business questions.

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