Authentication ensures that only the authorized users are allowed to connect to a Google BigQuery instance.
The Google BigQuery driver supports the following methods of authentication:
OAuth 2.0 authentication. It allows the users to authenticate to a Google BigQuery instance without specifying user ID and password.
Service account authentication. It allows the users to authenticate to a Google BigQuery instance using a service account, which is a type of Google account that represents an application instead of an individual end user.