The driver supports the Google BigQuery Storage API for fetching large result sets. Compared to the standard BigQuery API, the BigQuery Storage API provides increased throughput and allows the driver to more efficiently manage large result sets.
Note: Currently, the Storage API is supported only on Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit, and JVM 64-bit. If an application attempts to use the Storage API on an unsupported platform, the driver falls back to the Standard API.
You can enable the driver to use the Storage API with the Use Storage API connection option. You can further configure how the driver uses the Storage API with the Storage API Threshold and Storage API Min Page Count connection options.
Before enabling the driver to use the Storage API, prerequisites described in the Google Cloud BigQuery Storage API reference must be met.
Important: The BigQuery Storage API has a separate pricing model. Refer to BigQuery Storage pricing for details.
