External Data Sources
Google BigQuery allows you to create external datasets that store data in Amazon S3 regions (like aws-us-east-1) or Azure Storage regions (like azure-useast2). The add-in supports these datasets with two major limitations:
- Google BigQuery treats external tables as read-only. You cannot execute INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE queries on them. They are also incompatible with DestinationTable because Google BigQuery cannot create destination tables in an external dataset.
- Google BigQuery does not support the Storage API for external datasets. You must disable the UseStorageAPI option in order to query them. This limits the read throughput of the add-in, so if you are executing large queries CData recommends that you copy your data into Google BigQuery for the best performance.