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BigQuery DataFrames
BigQuery DataFrames provides a Pythonic DataFrame and machine learning (ML) API powered by the BigQuery engine.
bigframes.pandas
provides a pandas-compatible API for analytics.bigframes.ml
provides a scikit-learn-like API for ML.
BigQuery DataFrames is an open-source package. You can run
pip install --upgrade bigframes
to install the latest version.
Documentation
Quickstart
Prerequisites
Install the
bigframes
package.Create a Google Cloud project and billing account.
When running locally, authenticate with application default credentials. See the gcloud auth application-default login reference.
Code sample
Import bigframes.pandas
for a pandas-like interface. The read_gbq
method accepts either a fully-qualified table ID or a SQL query.
import bigframes.pandas as bpd
bpd.options.bigquery.project = your_gcp_project_id
df1 = bpd.read_gbq("project.dataset.table")
df2 = bpd.read_gbq("SELECT a, b, c, FROM `project.dataset.table`")
Locations
BigQuery DataFrames uses a
BigQuery session
internally to manage metadata on the service side. This session is tied to a
location .
BigQuery DataFrames uses the US multi-region as the default location, but you
can use session_options.location
to set a different location. Every query
in a session is executed in the location where the session was created.
BigQuery DataFrames
auto-populates bf.options.bigquery.location
if the user starts with
read_gbq/read_gbq_table/read_gbq_query()
and specifies a table, either
directly or in a SQL statement.
If you want to reset the location of the created DataFrame or Series objects,
you can reset the session by executing bigframes.pandas.reset_session()
.
After that, you can reuse bigframes.pandas.options.bigquery.location
to
specify another location.
read_gbq()
requires you to specify a location if the dataset you are
querying is not in the US multi-region. If you try to read a table from another
location, you get a NotFound exception.
Project
If bf.options.bigquery.project
is not set, the $GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT
environment variable is used, which is set in the notebook runtime serving the
BigQuery Studio/Vertex Notebooks.
ML Capabilities
The ML capabilities in BigQuery DataFrames let you preprocess data, and then train models on that data. You can also chain these actions together to create data pipelines.
Preprocess data
Create transformers to prepare data for use in estimators (models) by using the bigframes.ml.preprocessing module and the bigframes.ml.compose module. BigQuery DataFrames offers the following transformations:
Use the OneHotEncoder class in the
bigframes.ml.preprocessing
module to transform categorical values into numeric format.Use the StandardScaler class in the
bigframes.ml.preprocessing
module to standardize features by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance.Use the ColumnTransformer class in the
bigframes.ml.compose
module to apply transformers to DataFrames columns.
Train models
Create estimators to train models in BigQuery DataFrames.
Clustering models
Create estimators for clustering models by using the bigframes.ml.cluster module.
- Use the KMeans class to create K-means clustering models. Use these models for data segmentation. For example, identifying customer segments. K-means is an unsupervised learning technique, so model training doesn’t require labels or split data for training or evaluation.
Decomposition models
Create estimators for decomposition models by using the bigframes.ml.decomposition module.
- Use the PCA class to create principal component analysis (PCA) models. Use these models for computing principal components and using them to perform a change of basis on the data. This provides dimensionality reduction by projecting each data point onto only the first few principal components to obtain lower-dimensional data while preserving as much of the data’s variation as possible.
Ensemble models
Create estimators for ensemble models by using the bigframes.ml.ensemble module.
Use the RandomForestClassifier class to create random forest classifier models. Use these models for constructing multiple learning method decision trees for classification.
Use the RandomForestRegressor class to create random forest regression models. Use these models for constructing multiple learning method decision trees for regression.
Use the XGBClassifier class to create gradient boosted tree classifier models. Use these models for additively constructing multiple learning method decision trees for classification.
Use the XGBRegressor class to create gradient boosted tree regression models. Use these models for additively constructing multiple learning method decision trees for regression.
Forecasting models
Create estimators for forecasting models by using the bigframes.ml.forecasting module.
- Use the ARIMAPlus class to create time series forecasting models.
Imported models
Create estimators for imported models by using the bigframes.ml.imported module.
Use the ONNXModel class to import Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) models.
Use the TensorFlowModel class to import TensorFlow models.
Linear models
Create estimators for linear models by using the bigframes.ml.linear_model module.
Use the LinearRegression class to create linear regression models. Use these models for forecasting. For example, forecasting the sales of an item on a given day.
Use the LogisticRegression class to create logistic regression models. Use these models for the classification of two or more possible values such as whether an input is
low-value
,medium-value
, orhigh-value
.
Large language models
Create estimators for LLMs by using the bigframes.ml.llm module.
Use the PaLM2TextGenerator class to create PaLM2 text generator models. Use these models for text generation tasks.
Use the PaLM2TextEmbeddingGenerator class to create PaLM2 text embedding generator models. Use these models for text embedding generation tasks.
Create pipelines
Create ML pipelines by using bigframes.ml.pipeline module. Pipelines let you assemble several ML steps to be cross-validated together while setting different parameters. This simplifies your code, and allows you to deploy data preprocessing steps and an estimator together.
- Use the Pipeline class to create a pipeline of transforms with a final estimator.
ML locations
bigframes.ml
supports the same locations as BigQuery ML. BigQuery ML model
prediction and other ML functions are supported in all BigQuery regions. Support
for model training varies by region. For more information, see
BigQuery ML locations.
Data types
BigQuery DataFrames supports the following numpy and pandas dtypes:
numpy.dtype("O")
pandas.BooleanDtype()
pandas.Float64Dtype()
pandas.Int64Dtype()
pandas.StringDtype(storage="pyarrow")
pandas.ArrowDtype(pa.date32())
pandas.ArrowDtype(pa.time64("us"))
pandas.ArrowDtype(pa.timestamp("us"))
pandas.ArrowDtype(pa.timestamp("us", tz="UTC"))
BigQuery DataFrames doesn’t support the following BigQuery data types:
ARRAY
NUMERIC
BIGNUMERIC
INTERVAL
STRUCT
JSON
All other BigQuery data types display as the object type.
Remote functions
BigQuery DataFrames gives you the ability to turn your custom scalar functions into BigQuery remote functions . Creating a remote function in BigQuery DataFrames creates a BigQuery remote function, a BigQuery connection , and a Cloud Functions (2nd gen) function .
BigQuery connections are created in the same location as the BigQuery DataFrames session, using the name you provide in the custom function definition. To view and manage connections, do the following:
Select the project in which you created the remote function.
In the Explorer pane, expand that project and then expand External connections.
BigQuery remote functions are created in the dataset you specify, or
in a dataset with the name bigframes_temp_location
, where location is
the location used by the BigQuery DataFrames session. For example,
bigframes_temp_us_central1
. To view and manage remote functions, do
the following:
Select the project in which you created the remote function.
In the Explorer pane, expand that project, expand the dataset in which you created the remote function, and then expand Routines.
To view and manage Cloud Functions functions, use the
Functions
page and use the project picker to select the project in which you
created the function. For easy identification, the names of the functions
created by BigQuery DataFrames are prefixed by bigframes
.
Requirements
BigQuery DataFrames uses the gcloud
command-line interface internally,
so you must run gcloud auth login
before using remote functions.
To use BigQuery DataFrames remote functions, you must enable the following APIs:
The BigQuery API (bigquery.googleapis.com)
The BigQuery Connection API (bigqueryconnection.googleapis.com)
The Cloud Functions API (cloudfunctions.googleapis.com)
The Cloud Run API (run.googleapis.com)
The Artifact Registry API (artifactregistry.googleapis.com)
The Cloud Build API (cloudbuild.googleapis.com )
The Cloud Resource Manager API (cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com)
To use BigQuery DataFrames remote functions, you must be granted the following IAM roles:
BigQuery Data Editor (roles/bigquery.dataEditor)
BigQuery Connection Admin (roles/bigquery.connectionAdmin)
Cloud Functions Developer (roles/cloudfunctions.developer)
Service Account User (roles/iam.serviceAccountUser) on the service account https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/reference/iam/roles#additional-configuration ` ``PROJECT_NUMBER-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com`
Storage Object Viewer (roles/storage.objectViewer)
Project IAM Admin (roles/resourcemanager.projectIamAdmin)
Limitations
Remote functions take about 90 seconds to become available when you first create them.
Trivial changes in the notebook, such as inserting a new cell or renaming a variable, might cause the remote function to be re-created, even if these changes are unrelated to the remote function code.
BigQuery DataFrames does not differentiate any personal data you include in the remote function code. The remote function code is serialized as an opaque box to deploy it as a Cloud Functions function.
The Cloud Functions (2nd gen) functions, BigQuery connections, and BigQuery remote functions created by BigQuery DataFrames persist in Google Cloud. If you don’t want to keep these resources, you must delete them separately using an appropriate Cloud Functions or BigQuery interface.
A project can have up to 1000 Cloud Functions (2nd gen) functions at a time. See Cloud Functions quotas for all the limits.
Quotas and limits
BigQuery quotas including hardware, software, and network components.
Session termination
Each BigQuery DataFrames DataFrame or Series object is tied to a BigQuery
DataFrames session, which is in turn based on a BigQuery session. BigQuery
sessions
auto-terminate
; when this happens, you can’t use previously
created DataFrame or Series objects and must re-create them using a new
BigQuery DataFrames session. You can do this by running
bigframes.pandas.reset_session()
and then re-running the BigQuery
DataFrames expressions.
Data processing location
BigQuery DataFrames is designed for scale, which it achieves by keeping data
and processing on the BigQuery service. However, you can bring data into the
memory of your client machine by calling .to_pandas()
on a DataFrame or Series
object. If you choose to do this, the memory limitation of your client machine
applies.
License
BigQuery DataFrames is distributed with the Apache-2.0 license.
It also contains code derived from the following third-party packages:
For details, see the third_party directory.
Contact Us
For further help and provide feedback, you can email us at bigframes-feedback@google.com.