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Lance BigLake Namespace

Google BigLake Metastore is a fully managed, unified metastore service for data lakes on Google Cloud.

To use Google BigLake Metastore with Lance, you can leverage BigLake's Iceberg REST Catalog, which exposes an Apache Iceberg REST Catalog-compatible interface.

Configuration

Configure your Lance Iceberg namespace to connect to the BigLake Metastore endpoint:

  • endpoint: https://biglake.googleapis.com/iceberg/v1/restcatalog
  • warehouse: Your BigLake catalog name in the format projects/{project}/locations/{location}/catalogs/{catalog}
  • auth_token: A valid Google Cloud OAuth2 access token

All the features and configurations of the Lance Iceberg REST Catalog Namespace apply when using BigLake Metastore.