Using order by on big data databases is not an ordinary operation and at some point it exceeds the attributes of big data resources. You should consider sharding your query or run the order by in your exported data.
As I explained to you today in your other question, adding allowLargeResults
will allow you to return large response, but you can't specify a top-level ORDER BY, TOP or LIMIT clause. Doing so negates the benefit of using allowLargeResults
, because the query output can no longer be computed in parallel.
One option here that you may try is sharding your query.
where ABS(HASH(Id) % 4) = 0
You can play with the above parameters a lot to achieve smaller resultsets and then combining.
Also read Chapter 9 - Understanding Query Execution it explaines how internally sharding works.
You should also read Launch Checklist for BigQuery