macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install bigquery-emulatorlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install bigquery-emulator with Homebrew, Nix
Emulate a GCP BigQuery server on your local machine. Version 0.8.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#bigquery-emulator.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#bigquery-emulatornixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/bi/bigquery-emulator/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Emulate a GCP BigQuery server on your local machine
Project links
Commands and aliases
- bigquery-emulator
history
Project history and usage
BigQuery Emulator is a Go-based local server that emulates Google BigQuery APIs for tests and development without a cloud project or credentials.
Project history
The official README says the maintainer built the project in 2022 after a long-standing request for an official BigQuery emulator remained unresolved. GitHub metadata shows the repository was created on 2022-06-20, followed by early v0.1.x releases in July and August 2022.
Adoption history
The project targets developers who need BigQuery-compatible integration tests. Its README documents use from the `bq` CLI, official Google client libraries, Docker images, Go embedding, and release archives; the input package facts show it packaged by Homebrew and Nix.
How it is used
Typical package use is to run `bigquery-emulator --project=test`, point clients at the local REST and gRPC ports, optionally persist state in SQLite, and seed datasets from YAML.
Why package nerds care
It is package-nerd interesting because it makes a cloud data warehouse workflow reproducible from a local binary: no service account, no live GCP project, and no heavyweight container stack if the CLI package is enough.
Timeline
- 2022-06-20: GitHub repository created.
- 2022-07-09: v0.1.0 release published.
- 2022-08-07: v0.1.4 release published.
Related projects
- Related projects and dependencies include Google BigQuery, the `bq` CLI, Google Cloud BigQuery client libraries, SQLite, and the maintainer's googlesqlite engine.
Sources
- GitHub repository and release metadata from api.github.com.
- Official GitHub README.
- Package adoption from source_facts.package-manager.
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for bigquery-emulator. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
bigquery-emulator | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.8.1
manager updated2026-07-26
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:bigquery-emulator |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.8.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator |
| Repository | https://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator |
| Last updated | 2026-07-26T10:56:33+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
bigquery-emulator
nix profile install nixpkgs#bigquery-emulator- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Bigquery Emulator
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation