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Is async support available? #1071

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@eshwen

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I have a large codebase with several intensive queries to BigQuery. I'm trying to port these synchronous queries to async to improve performance, but am unable to create an async SQLAlchemy engine. Is there a specific dialect and/or driver I can provide in order to enable async functionality? Or is there an easy workaround?

MWE

A simple script:

from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import create_async_engine

conn_path = "bigquery://"
engine = create_async_engine(conn_path)

Resulting in the traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/eshwen.bhal/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/PyCharm2024.1/scratches/scratch_6.py", line 4, in <module>
    engine = create_async_engine(conn_path)
  File "/Users/eshwen.bhal/Documents/GitHub/mjolnir/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sqlalchemy/ext/asyncio/engine.py", line 118, in create_async_engine
    return AsyncEngine(sync_engine)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/eshwen.bhal/Documents/GitHub/mjolnir/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sqlalchemy/ext/asyncio/engine.py", line 1023, in __init__
    raise exc.InvalidRequestError(
sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: The asyncio extension requires an async driver to be used. The loaded 'bigquery' is not async.

Environment

  • Python: 3.11.8
  • SQLAlchemy: 2.0.28
  • sqlalchemy-bigquery: 1.11.0
  • Chip: Apple M2 Pro
  • OS: macOS 14.4.1

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api: bigqueryIssues related to the googleapis/python-bigquery-sqlalchemy API.priority: p3Desirable enhancement or fix. May not be included in next release.type: feature request‘Nice-to-have’ improvement, new feature or different behavior or design.

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