If the data is in Cloud Storage, BigQuery can query it in-place without loading it. BigQuery calls this an External Data Source. https://cloud.google.com/bigqu

If the data is in Cloud Storage, BigQuery can query it in-place without loading it. BigQuery calls this an External Data Source. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/external-data-sources https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/external-data-sources My biggest papercut with using this was having to make sure that all of the locations matched exactly.