As of April 20th, 2026, BigLake is now called Google Cloud Lakehouse. BigLake metastore is now called the Lakehouse runtime catalog. Lakehouse APIs, client libraries, CLI commands, and IAM names remain unchanged and still reference BigLake.
Migrate metadata to Lakehouse Iceberg tables
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You can migrate metadata from external data catalogs to Google Cloud Lakehouse
Iceberg tables. The BigQuery Migration Service
supports metadata migration from the following external metastores:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2026-04-20 UTC."],[],[]]