bigquery-emulator ☆

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Description:
Emulate a GCP BigQuery server on your local machine

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.6.6@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: bigquery emulator gcp testing sql

Install: brew install bigquery-emulator

About:
The bigquery-emulator provides a lightweight, local server that mimics Google Cloud Platform's BigQuery API. It allows developers to test and develop BigQuery integrations without needing a GCP account or incurring costs. This tool is ideal for CI/CD pipelines and local development environments where real API connectivity is not available.

Key Features:

Supports standard SQL syntax for querying in-memory data
Compatible with the official BigQuery client libraries
Can be configured to load data from local files or static definitions
Dockerized for easy deployment and isolation

Use Cases:

Unit testing data transformation pipelines locally
Developing applications that depend on BigQuery without cloud credentials
Validating SQL queries against a local dataset

Alternatives:

mocker-api – Generic API mocking tool, whereas bigquery-emulator specifically implements the BigQuery protocol.
GCP BigQuery Sandbox – Requires internet access and a GCP project, while the emulator runs entirely offline.

License: MIT

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 11:57am		0	VERSION_BUMP	d0c5f763
May 8, 2024 5:12pm		0	NEW	32d73949