All joins happen within BigQuery.
Entity dataframes can be provided as a SQL query or can be provided as a Pandas dataframe. A Pandas dataframes will be uploaded to BigQuery as a table (marked for expiration) in order to complete join operations.
In order to use this offline store, you'll need to run pip install 'feast[gcp]'
. You can get started by then running feast init -t gcp
.
Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by BigQueryRetrievalJob
.