Remote Functions in BigQuery

How it works, and what you can do with it

BigQuery offers the ability to invoke user-defined functions (UDFs), but those UDFs have to be in SQL or JavaScript. Such functions run entirely in BigQuery and, therefore, offer great scalability and performance (SQL more so than JavaScript). But there are lots of situations where you need to run code outside of BigQuery, and situations where you want to run code written in other languages. For these two situations, you …

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