As of April 20th, 2026, BigLake is now called 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.
Required. The parent resource where this catalog will be created. Format: projects/{project_id_or_number}
Query parameters
Parameters
hiveCatalogId
string
Required. The Hive Catalog ID to use for the catalog that will become the final component of the catalog's resource name. The maximum length is 256 characters.
primary_location
string
Required. The GCP region that specifies where the catalog metadata is stored, e.g. us-central1, EU, etc.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of HiveCatalog.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of HiveCatalog.
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