Google bigtable integration

Bigtable is a key-value and wide-column store, ideal for fast access to structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data. Extend your database application to build AI-powered experiences leveraging Bigtable’s LangChain integrations.

This notebook goes over how to use Bigtable to save, load and delete langchain documents with BigtableLoader and BigtableSaver. Learn more about the package on GitHub.

Before you begin

To run this notebook, you will need to do the following:

After confirmed access to database in the runtime environment of this notebook, filling the following values and run the cell before running example scripts.

# @markdown Please specify an instance and a table for demo purpose.
INSTANCE_ID = "my_instance"  # @param {type:"string"}
TABLE_ID = "my_table"  # @param {type:"string"}

🦜🔗 Library installation

The integration lives in its own langchain-google-bigtable package, so we need to install it.

pip install -upgrade --quiet langchain-google-bigtable

Colab only: Uncomment the following cell to restart the kernel or use the button to restart the kernel. For Vertex AI Workbench you can restart the terminal using the button on top.

# # Automatically restart kernel after installs so that your environment can access the new packages
# import IPython

# app = IPython.Application.instance()
# app.kernel.do_shutdown(True)

Set your Google Cloud project

Set your Google Cloud project so that you can leverage Google Cloud resources within this notebook. If you don’t know your project ID, try the following:

Run gcloud config list.
Run gcloud projects list.
See the support page: Locate the project ID.

# @markdown Please fill in the value below with your Google Cloud project ID and then run the cell.

PROJECT_ID = "my-project-id"  # @param {type:"string"}

# Set the project id
!gcloud config set project {PROJECT_ID}

Authentication

Authenticate to Google Cloud as the IAM user logged into this notebook in order to access your Google Cloud Project.

If you are using Colab to run this notebook, use the cell below and continue.
If you are using Vertex AI Workbench, check out the Vertex AI Workbench setup instructions.

from google.colab import auth

auth.authenticate_user()

Basic usage

Using the saver

Save langchain documents with BigtableSaver.add_documents(<documents>). To initialize BigtableSaver class you need to provide 2 things:

instance_id - An instance of Bigtable.
table_id - The name of the table within the Bigtable to store langchain documents.

from langchain_core.documents import Document
from langchain_google_bigtable import BigtableSaver

test_docs = [
    Document(
        page_content="Apple Granny Smith 150 0.99 1",
        metadata={"fruit_id": 1},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Banana Cavendish 200 0.59 0",
        metadata={"fruit_id": 2},
    ),
    Document(
        page_content="Orange Navel 80 1.29 1",
        metadata={"fruit_id": 3},
    ),
]

saver = BigtableSaver(
    instance_id=INSTANCE_ID,
    table_id=TABLE_ID,
)

saver.add_documents(test_docs)

Querying for documents from bigtable

For more details on connecting to a Bigtable table, please check the Python SDK documentation.

Load documents from table

Load langchain documents with BigtableLoader.load() or BigtableLoader.lazy_load(). lazy_load returns a generator that only queries database during the iteration. To initialize BigtableLoader class you need to provide:

instance_id - An instance of Bigtable.
table_id - The name of the table within the Bigtable to store langchain documents.

from langchain_google_bigtable import BigtableLoader

loader = BigtableLoader(
    instance_id=INSTANCE_ID,
    table_id=TABLE_ID,
)

for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    print(doc)
    break

Delete documents

Delete a list of langchain documents from Bigtable table with BigtableSaver.delete(<documents>).

from langchain_google_bigtable import BigtableSaver

docs = loader.load()
print("Documents before delete: ", docs)

onedoc = test_docs[0]
saver.delete([onedoc])
print("Documents after delete: ", loader.load())

Advanced usage

Limiting the returned rows

There are two ways to limit the returned rows:

Using a filter
Using a row_set

import google.cloud.bigtable.row_filters as row_filters

filter_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID, TABLE_ID, filter=row_filters.ColumnQualifierRegexFilter(b"os_build")
)


from google.cloud.bigtable.row_set import RowSet

row_set = RowSet()
row_set.add_row_range_from_keys(
    start_key="phone#4c410523#20190501", end_key="phone#4c410523#201906201"
)

row_set_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    row_set=row_set,
)

Custom client

The client created by default is the default client, using only admin=True option. To use a non-default, a custom client can be passed to the constructor.

from google.cloud import bigtable

custom_client_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    client=bigtable.Client(...),
)

Custom content

The BigtableLoader assumes there is a column family called langchain, that has a column called content, that contains values encoded in UTF-8. These defaults can be changed like so:

from langchain_google_bigtable import Encoding

custom_content_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    content_encoding=Encoding.ASCII,
    content_column_family="my_content_family",
    content_column_name="my_content_column_name",
)

Metadata mapping

By default, the metadata map on the Document object will contain a single key, rowkey, with the value of the row’s rowkey value. To add more items to that map, use metadata_mapping.

import json

from langchain_google_bigtable import MetadataMapping

metadata_mapping_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    metadata_mappings=[
        MetadataMapping(
            column_family="my_int_family",
            column_name="my_int_column",
            metadata_key="key_in_metadata_map",
            encoding=Encoding.INT_BIG_ENDIAN,
        ),
        MetadataMapping(
            column_family="my_custom_family",
            column_name="my_custom_column",
            metadata_key="custom_key",
            encoding=Encoding.CUSTOM,
            custom_decoding_func=lambda input: json.loads(input.decode()),
            custom_encoding_func=lambda input: str.encode(json.dumps(input)),
        ),
    ],
)

Metadata as JSON

If there is a column in Bigtable that contains a JSON string that you would like to have added to the output document metadata, it is possible to add the following parameters to BigtableLoader. Note, the default value for metadata_as_json_encoding is UTF-8.

metadata_as_json_loader = BigtableLoader(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    metadata_as_json_encoding=Encoding.ASCII,
    metadata_as_json_family="my_metadata_as_json_family",
    metadata_as_json_name="my_metadata_as_json_column_name",
)

Customize BigtableSaver

The BigtableSaver is also customizable similar to BigtableLoader.

saver = BigtableSaver(
    INSTANCE_ID,
    TABLE_ID,
    client=bigtable.Client(...),
    content_encoding=Encoding.ASCII,
    content_column_family="my_content_family",
    content_column_name="my_content_column_name",
    metadata_mappings=[
        MetadataMapping(
            column_family="my_int_family",
            column_name="my_int_column",
            metadata_key="key_in_metadata_map",
            encoding=Encoding.INT_BIG_ENDIAN,
        ),
        MetadataMapping(
            column_family="my_custom_family",
            column_name="my_custom_column",
            metadata_key="custom_key",
            encoding=Encoding.CUSTOM,
            custom_decoding_func=lambda input: json.loads(input.decode()),
            custom_encoding_func=lambda input: str.encode(json.dumps(input)),
        ),
    ],
    metadata_as_json_encoding=Encoding.ASCII,
    metadata_as_json_family="my_metadata_as_json_family",
    metadata_as_json_name="my_metadata_as_json_column_name",
)

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Before you begin

🦜🔗 Library installation

Set your Google Cloud project

Authentication

Basic usage

Using the saver

Querying for documents from bigtable

Load documents from table

Delete documents

Advanced usage

Limiting the returned rows

Custom client

Custom content

Metadata mapping

Metadata as JSON

Customize BigtableSaver

​Before you begin

​🦜🔗 Library installation

​Set your Google Cloud project

​Authentication

​Basic usage

​Using the saver

​Querying for documents from bigtable

​Load documents from table

​Delete documents

​Advanced usage

​Limiting the returned rows

​Custom client

​Custom content

​Metadata mapping

​Metadata as JSON

​Customize BigtableSaver

Before you begin

🦜🔗 Library installation

Set your Google Cloud project

Authentication

Basic usage

Using the saver

Querying for documents from bigtable

Load documents from table

Delete documents

Advanced usage

Limiting the returned rows

Custom client

Custom content

Metadata mapping

Metadata as JSON

Customize BigtableSaver