Unstructured data in Vertex AI feature store

[anu_sh]

Does Vertex AI feature store support ingestion, transformation and storage of unstructured data like images and audio?

[junlu]

Hi,

As per source data requirements [1] regarding Vertex AI Feature Store, it does not look like that you'll be able to ingest unstructured data.

"Vertex AI Feature Store can ingest data from tables in BigQuery or files in Cloud Storage. For files in Cloud Storage, they must be in the Avro or CSV format."

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/featurestore/source-data