Have you checked
https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/write-to-bigquery?

autosharding is generally recommended. If the cost is the concern, have you
checked STORAGE_API_AT_LEAST_ONCE?

On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are trying to process over 150TB data(streaming unbound) per day and
> save them to BQ and it looks like storage api is not economical enough for
> us.  I tried to use file upload but somehow it doesn't work and there are
> not many documents for file upload method online. I have a few questions
> regarding the file_upload method in streaming mode.
> 1. How do I decide numOfFileShards? can I still reply on autosharding?
> 2. I noticed the fileloads method requires much more memory, I'm not sure
> if dataflow runner would keep all the data in memory before writing to
> file? If so even one minute data is too much to be kept in memory and less
> than one minute means would exceed the api quota. Is there a way to cap the
> memory usage like write data to files before trigger file load job?
> 3. I also noticed that if there is a file upload job failure, I don't get
> the error message, so what can I do to handle the error, what is the best
> practice in terms of error handling in file_upload method?
>
> Thanks!
> Regards,
> Siyuan
>

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