# Beam Bigtable Output

## <img src="/files/uzvxO7JYjKKbBkTBWtt9" alt="" data-size="line"> Beam Bigtable Output

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

The Beam Bigtable Output transform can be used to write data to a [Google Cloud Bigtable](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable) 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 project.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Instance ID     | The Bigtable instance ID.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Table ID        | The Bigtable ID.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Key field       | the field to use as the Bigtable table row key                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Columns to set: | <p>a list of the columns to write to the Bigtable table:</p><ul><li>name: the name (qualifier) for this column</li><li>family: the family name for this column</li><li>source field: the pipeline field to use for the column’s values</li></ul> |


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