Java supports specifying a retry policy when performing streaming writes to BQ: [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/InsertRetryPolicy.java](https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/InsertRetryPolicy.java) We should update Python BQ streaming sink to support this as well. https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery.py#L1430 Imported from Jira [BEAM-4650](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-4650). Original Jira may contain additional context. Reported by: chamikara.