Preparing to run the BigQuery collector

Setting up pre-requisites for running the collector

Make sure that the machine from where you are running the collector meets the following hardware and software requirements.

Table 1.

Item	Requirement
Hardware (for on-premise runs only) Note: The following specs are based upon running one collector process at a time. Please adjust the hardware if you are running multiple collectors at the same time.
RAM	8 GB
CPU	2 Ghz processor
Software (for on-premise runs only)
Docker	Click here to get Docker.
data.world specific objects (for both cloud and on-premise runs)
Dataset	You must have a ddw-catalogs dataset set up to hold your catalog files when you are done running the collector. If you are using Catalog Toolkit , follow these instructions to prepare the datasets for collectors.
Network connection
Allowlist IPs and domains	Follow these instructions to configure your network.

data.world connects to BigQuery using a Service Account associated with your project.

To set up authentication for BigQuery:

Create a service account with the following roles BigQuery Data Viewer and BigQuery User. For additional information on predefined roles and permissions, see Google Cloud Platform documentation.
After you create a service account, create a key for the account and download the associated JSON key file.
Place this key file on the machine from where you plan to run the collector. You will need this file while running the collector.

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