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Zeppelin and BigQuery

I'm looking for a visualisation and analytical notebook engine for BigQuery and am interested in Apache/Zeppelin.

We have internal capability in Python and R and want to use this with our BigQuery back end.

All the installation scenarios I've seen so far ( eg: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/09/analyzing-bigquery-datasets-using-bigquery-interpreter-for-apache-zeppelin) seem to require the installation of a fairly hefty Scala/Spark cluster which I don't see the need for (and which would cost a lot)

Is it possible to install Zeppelin without the cluster in Google Cloud?

Solution

  • Starting with 0.6.1 there is a Native BigQuery Interpreter for Apache Zeppelin available.
    It allows you to process and analyze datasets stored in Google BigQuery by directly running SQL against it from within an Apache Zeppelin notebook.
    So you do not need anymore query BigQuery using Apache Spark as it was only way before