Connection property descriptions
- Last Updated: August 4, 2025
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- DataDirect Connectors
- JDBC
- Google BigQuery 6.0
- Documentation
You can use connection properties to customize the driver for your
environment. This section lists the connection properties supported by the driver and
describes each property. You can use these connection properties with either the JDBC
DriverManager or a JDBC DataSource. For a DriverManager connection, a
property is expressed as a key value pair and takes the form property=value. For a data source connection, a property is expressed as a JDBC
method and takes the form
setproperty(value).
- In a JDBC data source, string values must be enclosed in double quotation marks, for
example,
setAuthenticationMethod("oauth2"). - The data type listed for each connection property is the Java data type used for the property value in a JDBC data source.
- Connection property names are case-insensitive. For example,
AuthenticationMethodis the same asauthenticationmethod. - For connection properties that support string values, use the following escape
sequence to specify values containing leading or trailing spaces and curly brackets:
{value}. For example:Project={myproject }orProject={{myproject}}.
The following tables provide a summary of the connection properties supported by the driver, their corresponding data source methods, and their default values.
Required properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that are required to connect to a Google BigQuery instance when the default authentication method, OAuth 2.0, is used for authentication.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| AccessToken | setAccessToken |
None |
| AuthenticationMethod | setAuthenticationMethod |
oauth2 |
| ClientID | setClientID |
None |
| ClientSecret | setClientSecret |
None |
| Dataset | setDataset |
None |
| Project | setProject |
None |
| RefreshToken | setRefreshToken |
None |
Mapping properties
The following table summarizes connection properties involved in mapping the remote Google BigQuery data model to a local schema map used to support SQL queries against Google BigQuery.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ConfigOptions | setConfigOptions |
VarcharLength=65535;
SchemaSet=; |
| CreateMap | setCreateMap |
notExist |
| SchemaMap | setSchemaMap |
Default value depends on environment |
OAuth 2.0 properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that are used for OAuth 2.0 authentication.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| AccessToken | setAccessToken |
None |
| AuthenticationMethod | setAuthenticationMethod |
oauth2 |
| AuthURI | setAuthUri |
https://accounts.google.com /o/oauth2/auth |
| ClientID | setClientID |
None |
| ClientSecret | setClientSecret |
None |
| EnableLoginPrompt | setEnableLoginPrompt |
false |
| RedirectURI | setRedirUri |
None |
| RefreshToken | setRefreshToken |
None |
| Scope | setScope |
https://www.googleapis.com/ auth/bigquery |
| TokenURI | setTokenUri |
https://accounts.google.com
/o/oauth2/token |
Service account properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that are used for service account authentication.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| AuthenticationMethod | setAuthenticationMethod |
oauth2 |
| JWTAudience | setJwtAudience |
https://accounts.google.com
/o/oauth2/token |
| ServiceAccountEmail | setServiceAccountEmail |
None |
| ServiceAccountKeyContent | setServiceAccountKeyContent |
None |
| ServiceAccountPrivateKey | setServiceAccountPrivateKey |
None |
| TokenURI | setTokenUri |
https://accounts.google.com
/o/oauth2/token |
Storage API properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that are used to leverage the Google BigQuery Storage API when fetching large result sets.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| StorageAPIMinPageCount | setStorageAPIMinPageCount |
3 |
| StorageAPIThreshold | setStorageAPIThreshold |
10000
|
| UseStorageAPI | setUseStorageAPI |
false |
Legacy SQL properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that can be used to execute queries using legacy SQL.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| AllowLargeResults | setAllowLargeResults |
false |
| LegacyDataset | setLegacyDataset |
_queries_
|
| LegacyTable | setLegacytable |
_sql_* |
| Syntax | setSyntax |
standard
|
Failover properties
The following table summarizes connection properties that can be used to implement failover.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ConnectionRetryCount | setConnectionRetryCount |
5
|
| ConnectionRetryDelay | setConnectionRetryDelay |
1 (second) |
Proxy server properties
The following table summarizes proxy server connection properties.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ProxyHost | setProxyHost |
None |
| ProxyPassword | setProxyPassword |
None |
| ProxyPort | setProxyPort |
0 |
| ProxyUser | setProxyUser |
None |
Web Service properties
The following table summarizes Web service connection properties, including those related to timeouts.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| WSFetchSize | setWSFetchSize |
10000 |
| WSPoolSize | setWSPoolSize |
1 |
| WSRetryCount | setWSRetryCount |
5 |
| WSTimeout | setWSTimeout |
120 (seconds) |
Timeout properties
The following table summarizes timeout connection properties.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| JobTimeout | setJobTimeout |
0 (no timeout) |
| LoginTimeout | setLoginTimeout |
0 |
| WSRetryCount | setWSRetryCount |
5 |
| WSTimeout | setWSTimeout |
120 (seconds) |
Statement pooling properties
The following table summarizes statement pooling connection properties.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ImportStatementPool | setImportStatementPool |
None |
| MaxPooledStatements | setMaxPooledStatements |
0 |
| RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean | setRegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean |
false |
Additional properties
The following table summarizes additional connection properties.
| Property | Data Source Method | Default |
|---|---|---|
| BinaryLength | setBinaryLength |
65535 |
| ConvertNull | setConvertNull |
1 |
| EnableCatalogSupport | setEnableCatalogSupport |
false |
| FetchSize | setFetchSize |
100 (rows) |
| JavaDoubleToString | setJavaDoubleToString |
false |
| JsonFormat | setJsonFormat |
raw |
| Location | setLocation |
None |
| LogConfigFile | setLogConfigFile |
ddlogging.properties |
| MaximumBytesBilled | setMaximumBytesBilled |
0 (no limit) |
| MaximumBillingTier | setMaximumBillingTier |
0 |
| PrimaryKeyPattern | setPrimaryKeyPattern |
* |
| RefreshSchema | setRefreshSchema |
true |
| RefreshSchemaForDDL | setRefreshSchemaForDDL |
true |
| RetryExceptions | setRetryExceptions |
false |
| ServerName | setServerName |
www.googleapis.com |
| SpyAttributes | setSpyAttributes |
None |
| UseStreamingInsert | useStreamingInsert |
true |
| UseQueryCache | setUseQueryCache |
1 |