# Beam BigQuery Output

## ![](/files/wV357pHU7qVzfJnHUTCE) Beam BigQuery Output

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

The Beam BigQuery Output transform can be used to write data to a [BigQuery](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) table using the Beam execution engine.

| Hop Engine | X            |
| ---------- | ------------ |
| 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 Platform project.                                       |
| Data set ID                    | The BigQuery dataset ID.                                                 |
| Table ID                       | The BigQuery table ID.                                                   |
| Create table if needed         | Whether or not to create the table if it does not exist. (default: true) |
| Truncate table                 | Whether or not to truncate the table before inserting.                   |
| Fail if the table is not empty | Throws an error if the table is not empty.                               |


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