# Beam BigQuery Input

## <img src="/files/kR1ovZCTg0vlRTcwDy98" alt="" data-size="line"> Beam BigQuery Input

### Description <a href="#description" id="description"></a>

The Beam BigQuery Input transform can be used to input data from [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) using the Beam execution engine.

| Hop Engine | <sup>✓</sup> |
| ---------- | ------------ |
| Spark      | <sup>✓</sup> |
| Flink      | <sup>✓</sup> |
| Dataflow   | <sup>✓</sup> |

### Options

| Option                  | Description                                                             |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Transform name          | Name of the transform, this name has to be unique in a single pipeline. |
| Project ID              | The Google Cloud project.                                               |
| Data set ID             | The BigQuery dataset ID.                                                |
| Table ID                | The BigQuery table ID.                                                  |
| Query                   | The input query, blank means everything from the table.                 |
| Return fields selection | A list of result fields.                                                |
| BQ Field name           | The field name in the BigQuery table.                                   |
| Rename to…​ (optional)  | The name to be given to a column.                                       |
| Hop data type           | The field data type.                                                    |


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