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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 2026-06-13.

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install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install bigquery-emulator

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#bigquery-emulator

nixpkgs 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

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
bigquery-emulatorcliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.8.1
manager updated2026-06-13
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.8.1

https://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:bigquery-emulator
Version0.8.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bigquery-emulator
Homepagehttps://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator
Repositoryhttps://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator
Upstream docshttps://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/goccy/bigquery-emulator/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-13T06:35:47Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namebigquery-emulator
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

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
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bi/bigquery-emulator/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • azuriteShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, emulator.
  • actions-batchShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • aiacShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • aiven-clientShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • akamaiShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • aliyun-cliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.

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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment