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.
Use Apache Flink with the Lakehouse runtime catalog
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The Lakehouse runtime catalog is compatible with Apache Flink. You can connect
Apache Flink to the Lakehouse runtime catalog using the Apache Iceberg REST
catalog endpoint endpoint, which provides a standard interface to discover and
manage Apache Iceberg tables.
To learn more about how to configure Apache Flink to use the Apache Iceberg
REST catalog endpoint, see the official Apache Iceberg Flink
documentation.
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