Google BigQuery Reader (Technology Preview)

Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.

The BigQuery Reader module enables FME to read BigQuery attribute data.

Technology Preview

Note: The BigQuery Reader is still under active development, so please expect changes to the current behavior.

Overview

BigQuery is a managed NoSQL database service offered by Google. The BigQuery reader communicates using HTTP requests managed by the Google APIs Client Library for Java.

This chapter assumes familiarity with BigQuery.

For more information, please visit the BigQuery home at

https://cloud.google.com/products/bigquery/

Reader Overview

When reading from BigQuery, each table is considered a feature type in FME and each row of a table is one feature in FME as long as there are no repeated fields.

In general, large volumes of data may not be read from BigQuery. A WHERE clause may be specified to limit the amount of data read. Alternatively, choosing a destination table and enabling “Allow Large Results” will allow large volumes of data to be read.

Open the Workbench Google BigQuery Reader: Format Parameters to view the table list options.