You can connect to Bigtable from Java applications and other reporting tools

## Feature Feature You can connect to Bigtable from Java applications and other reporting tools that support a generic JDBC adapter by using the [Bigtable JDBC driver](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/reference/jdbc). This feature is [generally available (GA)](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages). ## Feature Feature You can use [protocol buffer (protobuf) schemas](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/create-manage-protobuf-schemas)to query individual fields within protobuf messages stored as bytes in Bigtable. You can query your protobuf data using GoogleSQL for Bigtable, continuous materialized views, logical views, or BigQuery external tables. This feature is[generally available (GA)](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages).