Google Cloud Lakehouse (BigLake) pricing

Lakehouse for Apache Iceberg (formerly BigLake)

Google Cloud's Lakehouse (formerly BigLake) is an open, cross-cloud lakehouse platform that empowers customers to build high-performance, governed and managed lakehouses in an open and interoperable manner whiling connecting Apache Iceberg data to Google Cloud's powerful engines like BigQuery and Managed Service for Apache Spark. It provides:

Lakehouse table management (formerly BigLake)

BigLake (Lakehouse) tables perform automatic table storage optimization, including adaptive file sizing, automatic clustering, garbage collection, as well as BigQuery metadata (CMETA) generation and refresh to optimize query performance. Your compute usage for these background table management will be charged accordingly:

Pricing heading	Billing for	List price per DCU-hour*
BigLake (Lakehouse) table management	Storage optimization CMETA generation and refresh	$0.12 / 1 hour

Pricing heading

Billing for

List price per DCU-hour*

BigLake (Lakehouse) table management

Storage optimization CMETA generation and refresh

$0.12 / 1 hour

*The list prices depend on the region.

Lakehouse runtime catalog (formerly BigLake metastore)

Lakehouse runtime catalog (formerly BigLake) is a serverless and scalable runtime catalog that connects lakehouse data stored in Google Cloud to multiple runtimes, like Apache Spark and BigQuery. Configuration is done via the Iceberg REST catalog and Hive API.

Pricing heading	Billing for	List price*
Class A Operations (writes and metadata operations) Specific Operations: Create Register List Update setIamPolicy Note: Update operations include deleting rows from a table	Metadata Access charges for writes, updates, list, create and config operations Specific Operations: Create Register List Update setIamPolicy Note: Update operations include deleting rows from a table Metadata file > 1MB Each incremental MB, treated as 1 operation 1MB = 1 op, 2MB = 2 ops, 5MB = 5 ops	0 count to 5,001 count Free per 1 month / account 5,001 count and above $6.00 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account
Class B Operations (reads and delete operations) Specific Operations: Read Delete getIamPolicy	Metadata Access charges for reads, get and delete operations Specific Operations: Read Delete getIamPolicy Note: Metadata file > 1MB Each incremental MB, treated as 1 operation 1MB = 1 op, 2MB = 2 ops, 5MB = 5 ops	0 count to 50,001 count Free per 1 month / account 50,001 count and above $0.90 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account

Pricing heading

Billing for

List price*

Class A Operations

(writes and metadata operations)

Specific Operations:
Create
Register
List
Update
setIamPolicy
Note:
Update operations include deleting rows from a table

Metadata Access charges for writes, updates, list, create and config operations

Specific Operations:

Create
Register
List
Update
setIamPolicy

Note:

Update operations include deleting rows from a table

Metadata file > 1MB

Each incremental MB, treated as 1 operation
1MB = 1 op, 2MB = 2 ops, 5MB = 5 ops

0 count to 5,001 count

Free per 1 month / account

5,001 count and above

$6.00 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account

Class B Operations

(reads and delete operations)

Specific Operations:
Read
Delete
getIamPolicy

Metadata Access charges for reads, get and delete operations

Specific Operations:

Read
Delete
getIamPolicy

Note:

Metadata file > 1MB

Each incremental MB, treated as 1 operation
1MB = 1 op, 2MB = 2 ops, 5MB = 5 ops

0 count to 50,001 count

Free per 1 month / account

50,001 count and above

$0.90 / 1,000,000 count, per 1 month / account

* The list prices depend on the region.

Other pricing components

Google Cloud Compute

With Lakehouse, you can connect to your preferred engines, including BigQuery and Google Cloud Managed Service for Spark. Compute charges based on compute pricing for BigQuery and Managed Service for Apache Spark.

Google Cloud Storage

Your data remains in your Google Cloud Storage bucket, so you pay regular GCS rates directly for the storage space used. This cost depends entirely on the storage class you choose. Learn more about Google Cloud Storage pricing.

Request a custom quote

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