Does Bigquery charge for querying tables in INFORMATION_SCHEMA and also some other metadata tables like __TABLES__ . I tried to look for this information in the document here https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing but seems like there is not much information about this.
If this is chargable then whether call getTable method from java client is also chargable
The usage of INFORMATION_SCHEMA depends on the rate you are using. If you are using on-demand pricing. Views incur a minimum of 10 MB of data processing charges. You can see the price in this link.
With Flat rates views and tables consume your purchased BigQuery slots. You can see the price in this link.
For using metadata __TABLES__ BigQuery offers queries up to the first 1TB of query data processed per month for free. You can see this document.
You are not charged for querying this commands:
