Cloud Storage Avro to Bigtable template

The Cloud Storage Avro to Bigtable template is a pipeline that reads data from Avro files in a Cloud Storage bucket and writes the data to a Bigtable table. You can use the template to copy data from Cloud Storage to Bigtable.

Pipeline requirements

• The Bigtable table must exist and have the same column families as exported in the Avro files.
• The input Avro files must exist in a Cloud Storage bucket before running the pipeline.
• Bigtable expects a specific schema from the input Avro files.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description
bigtableProjectId	The ID of the Google Cloud project of the Bigtable instance that you want to write data to.
bigtableInstanceId	The ID of the Bigtable instance that contains the table.
bigtableTableId	The ID of the Bigtable table to import.
inputFilePattern	The Cloud Storage path pattern where data is located. For example, gs://mybucket/somefolder/prefix*.

Run the template

Console

1. Go to the Dataflow Create job from template page.
Go to Create job from template
2. In the Job name field, enter a unique job name.
3. Optional: For Regional endpoint, select a value from the drop-down menu. The default region is us-central1.

   For a list of regions where you can run a Dataflow job, see Dataflow locations.

4. From the Dataflow template drop-down menu, select the Avro Files on Cloud Storage to Cloud Bigtable template.
5. In the provided parameter fields, enter your parameter values.
6. Click Run job.

gcloud

Note: To use the Google Cloud CLI to run classic templates, you must have Google Cloud CLI version 138.0.0 or later.

In your shell or terminal, run the template:

gcloud dataflow jobs run JOB_NAME \
    --gcs-location gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/VERSION/GCS_Avro_to_Cloud_Bigtable \
    --region REGION_NAME \
    --parameters \
bigtableProjectId=BIGTABLE_PROJECT_ID,\
bigtableInstanceId=INSTANCE_ID,\
bigtableTableId=TABLE_ID,\
inputFilePattern=INPUT_FILE_PATTERN

Replace the following:

• JOB_NAME: a unique job name of your choice
• VERSION: the version of the template that you want to use

  You can use the following values:

  • latest to use the latest version of the template, which is available in the non-dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/latest/
  • the version name, like 2023-09-12-00_RC00, to use a specific version of the template, which can be found nested in the respective dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/
  Caution: The latest version of templates might update with breaking changes. Your production environments should use templates kept in the most recent dated parent folder to prevent these breaking changes from affecting your production workflows.
• REGION_NAME: the region where you want to deploy your Dataflow job—for example, us-central1
• BIGTABLE_PROJECT_ID: the ID of the Google Cloud project of the Bigtable instance that you want to read data from
• INSTANCE_ID: the ID of the Bigtable instance that contains the table
• TABLE_ID: the ID of the Bigtable table to export
• INPUT_FILE_PATTERN: the Cloud Storage path pattern where data is located, for example, gs://mybucket/somefolder/prefix*

API

To run the template using the REST API, send an HTTP POST request. For more information on the API and its authorization scopes, see projects.templates.launch.

POST https://dataflow.googleapis.com/v1b3/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/templates:launch?gcsPath=gs://dataflow-templates-LOCATION/VERSION/GCS_Avro_to_Cloud_Bigtable
{
   "jobName": "JOB_NAME",
   "parameters": {
       "bigtableProjectId": "BIGTABLE_PROJECT_ID",
       "bigtableInstanceId": "INSTANCE_ID",
       "bigtableTableId": "TABLE_ID",
       "inputFilePattern": "INPUT_FILE_PATTERN",
   },
   "environment": { "zone": "us-central1-f" }
}

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: the Google Cloud project ID where you want to run the Dataflow job
• JOB_NAME: a unique job name of your choice
• VERSION: the version of the template that you want to use

  You can use the following values:

  • latest to use the latest version of the template, which is available in the non-dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/latest/
  • the version name, like 2023-09-12-00_RC00, to use a specific version of the template, which can be found nested in the respective dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/
  Caution: The latest version of templates might update with breaking changes. Your production environments should use templates kept in the most recent dated parent folder to prevent these breaking changes from affecting your production workflows.
• LOCATION: the region where you want to deploy your Dataflow job—for example, us-central1
• BIGTABLE_PROJECT_ID: the ID of the Google Cloud project of the Bigtable instance that you want to read data from
• INSTANCE_ID: the ID of the Bigtable instance that contains the table
• TABLE_ID: the ID of the Bigtable table to export
• INPUT_FILE_PATTERN: the Cloud Storage path pattern where data is located, for example, gs://mybucket/somefolder/prefix*

Template source code

Java

/*
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package com.google.cloud.teleport.bigtable;

import com.google.bigtable.v2.Mutation;
import com.google.bigtable.v2.Mutation.SetCell;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.bigtable.AvroToBigtable.Options;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.Template;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.TemplateCategory;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.TemplateParameter;
import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.options.DataflowPipelineOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.PipelineResult;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.avro.io.AvroIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.bigtable.BigtableIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.ValueProvider;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.ValueProvider.StaticValueProvider;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.DoFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.KV;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Dataflow pipeline that imports data from Avro files in GCS to a Cloud Bigtable table. The Cloud
 * Bigtable table must be created before running the pipeline and must have a compatible table
 * schema. For example, if {@link BigtableCell} from the Avro files has a 'family' of "f1", the
 * Bigtable table should have a column family of "f1".
 *
 * <p>Check out <a
 * href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowTemplates/blob/main/v1/README_GCS_Avro_to_Cloud_Bigtable.md">README</a>
 * for instructions on how to use or modify this template.
 */
@Template(
    name = "GCS_Avro_to_Cloud_Bigtable",
    category = TemplateCategory.BATCH,
    displayName = "Avro Files on Cloud Storage to Cloud Bigtable",
    description =
        "The Cloud Storage Avro to Bigtable template is a pipeline that reads data from Avro files in a Cloud Storage bucket and writes the data to a Bigtable table. "
            + "You can use the template to copy data from Cloud Storage to Bigtable.",
    optionsClass = Options.class,
    documentation =
        "https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/templates/provided/avro-to-bigtable",
    contactInformation = "https://cloud.google.com/support",
    requirements = {
      "The Bigtable table must exist and have the same column families as exported in the Avro files.",
      "The input Avro files must exist in a Cloud Storage bucket before running the pipeline.",
      "Bigtable expects a specific <a href=\"https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowTemplates/blob/main/v1/src/main/resources/schema/avro/bigtable.avsc\">schema</a> from the input Avro files.",
    })
public final class AvroToBigtable {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AvroToBigtable.class);

  /** Maximum number of mutations allowed per row by Cloud bigtable. */
  private static final int MAX_MUTATIONS_PER_ROW = 100000;

  private static final Boolean DEFAULT_SPLIT_LARGE_ROWS = false;

  /** Options for the import pipeline. */
  public interface Options extends PipelineOptions {
    @TemplateParameter.ProjectId(
        order = 1,
        description = "Project ID",
        helpText =
            "The ID of the Google Cloud project of the Cloud Bigtable instance that you want to write data to")
    ValueProvider<String> getBigtableProjectId();

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    void setBigtableProjectId(ValueProvider<String> projectId);

    @TemplateParameter.Text(
        order = 2,
        regexes = {"[a-z][a-z0-9\\-]+[a-z0-9]"},
        description = "Instance ID",
        helpText = "The ID of the Cloud Bigtable instance that contains the table")
    ValueProvider<String> getBigtableInstanceId();

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    void setBigtableInstanceId(ValueProvider<String> instanceId);

    @TemplateParameter.Text(
        order = 4,
        regexes = {"[_a-zA-Z0-9][-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*"},
        description = "Table ID",
        helpText = "The ID of the Cloud Bigtable table to write")
    ValueProvider<String> getBigtableTableId();

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    void setBigtableTableId(ValueProvider<String> tableId);

    @TemplateParameter.GcsReadFile(
        order = 5,
        description = "Input Cloud Storage File(s)",
        helpText = "The Cloud Storage location of the files you'd like to process.",
        example = "gs://your-bucket/your-files/*.avro")
    ValueProvider<String> getInputFilePattern();

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    void setInputFilePattern(ValueProvider<String> inputFilePattern);

    @TemplateParameter.Boolean(
        order = 6,
        optional = true,
        description = "If true, large rows will be split into multiple MutateRows requests",
        helpText =
            "The flag for enabling splitting of large rows into multiple MutateRows requests. Note that when a large row is split between multiple API calls, the updates to the row are not atomic. ")
    ValueProvider<Boolean> getSplitLargeRows();

    void setSplitLargeRows(ValueProvider<Boolean> splitLargeRows);
  }

  /**
   * Runs a pipeline to import Avro files in GCS to a Cloud Bigtable table.
   *
   * @param args arguments to the pipeline
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Options options = PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation().as(Options.class);
    PipelineResult result = run(options);

    // Wait for pipeline to finish only if it is not constructing a template.
    if (options.as(DataflowPipelineOptions.class).getTemplateLocation() == null) {
      result.waitUntilFinish();
    }
  }

  public static PipelineResult run(Options options) {
    Pipeline pipeline = Pipeline.create(PipelineUtils.tweakPipelineOptions(options));

    BigtableIO.Write write =
        BigtableIO.write()
            .withProjectId(options.getBigtableProjectId())
            .withInstanceId(options.getBigtableInstanceId())
            .withTableId(options.getBigtableTableId());

    pipeline
        .apply("Read from Avro", AvroIO.read(BigtableRow.class).from(options.getInputFilePattern()))
        .apply(
            "Transform to Bigtable",
            ParDo.of(
                AvroToBigtableFn.createWithSplitLargeRows(
                    options.getSplitLargeRows(), MAX_MUTATIONS_PER_ROW)))
        .apply("Write to Bigtable", write);

    return pipeline.run();
  }

  /**
   * Translates {@link BigtableRow} to {@link Mutation}s along with a row key. The mutations are
   * {@link SetCell}s that set the value for specified cells with family name, column qualifier and
   * timestamp.
   */
  static class AvroToBigtableFn extends DoFn<BigtableRow, KV<ByteString, Iterable<Mutation>>> {
    private final ValueProvider<Boolean> splitLargeRowsFlag;
    private Boolean splitLargeRows;
    private final int maxMutationsPerRow;

    public static AvroToBigtableFn create() {
      return new AvroToBigtableFn(StaticValueProvider.of(false), MAX_MUTATIONS_PER_ROW);
    }

    public static AvroToBigtableFn createWithSplitLargeRows(
        ValueProvider<Boolean> splitLargeRowsFlag, int maxMutationsPerRequest) {
      return new AvroToBigtableFn(splitLargeRowsFlag, maxMutationsPerRequest);
    }

    private AvroToBigtableFn(
        ValueProvider<Boolean> splitLargeRowsFlag, int maxMutationsPerRequest) {
      this.splitLargeRowsFlag = splitLargeRowsFlag;
      this.maxMutationsPerRow = maxMutationsPerRequest;
    }

    @Setup
    public void setup() {
      if (splitLargeRowsFlag != null) {
        splitLargeRows = splitLargeRowsFlag.get();
      }
      splitLargeRows = MoreObjects.firstNonNull(splitLargeRows, DEFAULT_SPLIT_LARGE_ROWS);
      LOG.info("splitLargeRows set to: " + splitLargeRows);
    }

    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(
        @Element BigtableRow row, OutputReceiver<KV<ByteString, Iterable<Mutation>>> out) {
      ByteString key = toByteString(row.getKey());
      // BulkMutation doesn't split rows. Currently, if a single row contains more than 100,000
      // mutations, the service will fail the request.
      ImmutableList.Builder<Mutation> mutations = ImmutableList.builder();
      int cellsProcessed = 0;
      for (BigtableCell cell : row.getCells()) {
        SetCell setCell =
            SetCell.newBuilder()
                .setFamilyName(cell.getFamily().toString())
                .setColumnQualifier(toByteString(cell.getQualifier()))
                .setTimestampMicros(cell.getTimestamp())
                .setValue(toByteString(cell.getValue()))
                .build();

        mutations.add(Mutation.newBuilder().setSetCell(setCell).build());
        cellsProcessed++;

        if (this.splitLargeRows && cellsProcessed % maxMutationsPerRow == 0) {
          // Send a MutateRow request when we have accumulated max mutations per row.
          out.output(KV.of(key, mutations.build()));
          mutations = ImmutableList.builder();
        }
      }

      // Flush any remaining mutations.
      ImmutableList remainingMutations = mutations.build();
      if (!remainingMutations.isEmpty()) {
        out.output(KV.of(key, remainingMutations));
      }
    }
  }

  /** Copies the content in {@code byteBuffer} into a {@link ByteString}. */
  protected static ByteString toByteString(ByteBuffer byteBuffer) {
    return ByteString.copyFrom(byteBuffer.array());
  }
}

What's next

• Learn about Dataflow templates.
• See the list of Google-provided templates.