The BigQuery offline store provides support for reading BigQuerySources.
BigQuery tables and views are allowed as sources.
All joins happen within BigQuery.
Entity dataframes can be provided as a SQL query or can be provided as a Pandas dataframe. Pandas dataframes will be uploaded to BigQuery in order to complete join operations.
A BigQueryRetrievalJob is returned when calling get_historical_features()
.
Configuration options are available here.
The File offline store provides support for reading FileSources.
Only Parquet files are currently supported.
All data is downloaded and joined using Python and may not scale to production workloads.
Configuration options are available here.
Please see Offline Store for an explanation of offline stores.