Overview

BigQuery interpreter for Apache Zeppelin

Pre requisities

You can follow the instructions at Apache Zeppelin on Dataproc to bring up Zeppelin on Google dataproc. You could also install and bring up Zeppelin on Google compute Engine.

Unit Tests

BigQuery Unit tests are excluded as these tests depend on the BigQuery external service. This is because BigQuery does not have a local mock at this point.

If you like to run these tests manually, please follow the following steps:

Create a new project
Create a Google Compute Engine instance
Copy the project ID that you created and add it to the property “projectId” in resources/constants.json
Run the command mvn -Dbigquery.text.exclude='' test -pl bigquery -am

Interpreter Configuration

Configure the following properties during Interpreter creation.

Connection

The Interpreter opens a connection with the BigQuery Service using the supplied Google project ID and the compute environment variables.

Google BigQuery API Javadoc

API Javadocs [Source] (http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/google/apis/google-api-services-bigquery/v2-rev265-1.21.0/google-api-services-bigquery-v2-rev265-1.21.0-sources.jar)

We have used the curated veneer version of the Java APIs versus [Idiomatic Java client] (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-java/tree/master/gcloud-java-bigquery) to build the interpreter. This is mainly for usability reasons.

Enabling the BigQuery Interpreter

In a notebook, to enable the BigQuery interpreter, click the Gear icon and select bigquery.

Using the BigQuery Interpreter

In a paragraph, use %bigquery.sql to select the BigQuery interpreter and then input SQL statements against your datasets stored in BigQuery. You can use BigQuery SQL Reference to build your own SQL.

For Example, SQL to query for top 10 departure delays across airports using the flights public dataset

%bigquery.sql
SELECT departure_airport,count(case when departure_delay>0 then 1 else 0 end) as no_of_delays
FROM [bigquery-samples:airline_ontime_data.flights]
group by departure_airport
order by 2 desc
limit 10

Another Example, SQL to query for most commonly used java packages from the github data hosted in BigQuery

%bigquery.sql
SELECT
  package,
  COUNT(*) count
FROM (
  SELECT
    REGEXP_EXTRACT(line, r' ([a-z0-9\._]*)\.') package,
    id
  FROM (
    SELECT
      SPLIT(content, '\n') line,
      id
    FROM
      [bigquery-public-data:github_repos.sample_contents]
    WHERE
      content CONTAINS 'import'
      AND sample_path LIKE '%.java'
    HAVING
      LEFT(line, 6)='import' )
  GROUP BY
    package,
    id )
GROUP BY
  1
ORDER BY
  count DESC
LIMIT
  40

Sample Screenshot

Zeppelin BigQuery