diff --git a/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20260206205026841660.json b/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20260206205026841660.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db0635dd4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.semversioner/next-release/patch-20260206205026841660.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "type": "patch",
+  "description": "Add table provider factory."
+}
diff --git a/packages/graphrag-cache/graphrag_cache/cache_factory.py b/packages/graphrag-cache/graphrag_cache/cache_factory.py
index 6b1310754c..33a51099f0 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag-cache/graphrag_cache/cache_factory.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag-cache/graphrag_cache/cache_factory.py
@@ -5,20 +5,14 @@
 """Cache factory implementation."""
 
 from collections.abc import Callable
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from graphrag_common.factory import Factory
-from graphrag_storage import create_storage
+from graphrag_common.factory import Factory, ServiceScope
+from graphrag_storage import Storage, create_storage
 
+from graphrag_cache.cache import Cache
 from graphrag_cache.cache_config import CacheConfig
 from graphrag_cache.cache_type import CacheType
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from graphrag_common.factory import ServiceScope
-    from graphrag_storage import Storage
-
-    from graphrag_cache.cache import Cache
-
 
 class CacheFactory(Factory["Cache"]):
     """A factory class for cache implementations."""
@@ -29,8 +23,8 @@ class CacheFactory(Factory["Cache"]):
 
 def register_cache(
     cache_type: str,
-    cache_initializer: Callable[..., "Cache"],
-    scope: "ServiceScope" = "transient",
+    cache_initializer: Callable[..., Cache],
+    scope: ServiceScope = "transient",
 ) -> None:
     """Register a custom cache implementation.
 
@@ -45,7 +39,7 @@ def register_cache(
 
 
 def create_cache(
-    config: CacheConfig | None = None, storage: "Storage | None" = None
+    config: CacheConfig | None = None, storage: Storage | None = None
 ) -> "Cache":
     """Create a cache implementation based on the given configuration.
 
diff --git a/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_config.py b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1255646c28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License
+
+"""Storage configuration model."""
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
+
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_type import TableType
+
+
+class TableProviderConfig(BaseModel):
+    """The default configuration section for table providers."""
+
+    model_config = ConfigDict(extra="allow")
+    """Allow extra fields to support custom table provider implementations."""
+
+    type: str = Field(
+        description="The table type to use.",
+        default=TableType.Parquet,
+    )
diff --git a/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_factory.py b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_factory.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93add5d8d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_provider_factory.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License
+
+
+"""Storage factory implementation."""
+
+from collections.abc import Callable
+
+from graphrag_common.factory import Factory, ServiceScope
+
+from graphrag_storage.storage import Storage
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider import TableProvider
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider_config import TableProviderConfig
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_type import TableType
+
+
+class TableProviderFactory(Factory[TableProvider]):
+    """A factory class for table storage implementations."""
+
+
+table_provider_factory = TableProviderFactory()
+
+
+def register_table_provider(
+    table_type: str,
+    table_initializer: Callable[..., TableProvider],
+    scope: ServiceScope = "transient",
+) -> None:
+    """Register a custom storage implementation.
+
+    Args
+    ----
+        - table_type: str
+            The table type id to register.
+        - table_initializer: Callable[..., TableProvider]
+            The table initializer to register.
+    """
+    table_provider_factory.register(table_type, table_initializer, scope)
+
+
+def create_table_provider(
+    config: TableProviderConfig, storage: Storage | None = None
+) -> TableProvider:
+    """Create a table provider implementation based on the given configuration.
+
+    Args
+    ----
+        - config: TableProviderConfig
+            The table provider configuration to use.
+        - storage: Storage | None
+            The storage implementation to use for file-based TableProviders such as Parquet and CSV.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+        TableProvider
+            The created table provider implementation.
+    """
+    config_model = config.model_dump()
+    table_type = config.type
+
+    if table_type not in table_provider_factory:
+        match table_type:
+            case TableType.Parquet:
+                from graphrag_storage.tables.parquet_table_provider import (
+                    ParquetTableProvider,
+                )
+
+                register_table_provider(TableType.Parquet, ParquetTableProvider)
+            case _:
+                msg = f"TableProviderConfig.type '{table_type}' is not registered in the TableProviderFactory. Registered types: {', '.join(table_provider_factory.keys())}."
+                raise ValueError(msg)
+
+    if storage:
+        config_model["storage"] = storage
+
+    return table_provider_factory.create(table_type, config_model)
diff --git a/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_type.py b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_type.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ab8cdf7015
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/graphrag-storage/graphrag_storage/tables/table_type.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License
+
+
+"""Builtin table storage implementation types."""
+
+from enum import StrEnum
+
+
+class TableType(StrEnum):
+    """Enum for table storage types."""
+
+    Parquet = "parquet"
diff --git a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/cli/query.py b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/cli/query.py
index 1f808420d4..d3f7109733 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/cli/query.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/cli/query.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 from graphrag_storage import create_storage
-from graphrag_storage.tables.parquet_table_provider import ParquetTableProvider
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider_factory import create_table_provider
 
 import graphrag.api as api
 from graphrag.callbacks.noop_query_callbacks import NoopQueryCallbacks
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ def _resolve_output_files(
     """Read indexing output files to a dataframe dict."""
     dataframe_dict = {}
     storage_obj = create_storage(config.output_storage)
-    table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(storage_obj)
+    table_provider = create_table_provider(config.table_provider, storage=storage_obj)
     for name in output_list:
         df_value = asyncio.run(table_provider.read_dataframe(name))
         dataframe_dict[name] = df_value
diff --git a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/config/models/graph_rag_config.py b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/config/models/graph_rag_config.py
index 84fb2de884..dc28da97ca 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/config/models/graph_rag_config.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/config/models/graph_rag_config.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from graphrag_input import InputConfig
 from graphrag_llm.config import ModelConfig
 from graphrag_storage import StorageConfig, StorageType
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider_config import TableProviderConfig
 from graphrag_vectors import IndexSchema, VectorStoreConfig, VectorStoreType
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, model_validator
 
@@ -138,6 +139,11 @@ def _validate_update_output_storage_base_dir(self) -> None:
                 Path(self.update_output_storage.base_dir).resolve()
             )
 
+    table_provider: TableProviderConfig = Field(
+        description="The table provider configuration.", default=TableProviderConfig()
+    )
+    """The table provider configuration. By default we read/write parquet to disk. You can register custom output table storage."""
+
     cache: CacheConfig = Field(
         description="The cache configuration.",
         default=CacheConfig(**asdict(graphrag_config_defaults.cache)),
diff --git a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/run_pipeline.py b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/run_pipeline.py
index 24ff39cc07..a76b161d36 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/run_pipeline.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/run_pipeline.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 import pandas as pd
 from graphrag_cache import create_cache
 from graphrag_storage import create_storage
-from graphrag_storage.tables.parquet_table_provider import ParquetTableProvider
 from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider import TableProvider
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider_factory import create_table_provider
 
 from graphrag.callbacks.workflow_callbacks import WorkflowCallbacks
 from graphrag.config.models.graph_rag_config import GraphRagConfig
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ async def run_pipeline(
 ) -> AsyncIterable[PipelineRunResult]:
     """Run all workflows using a simplified pipeline."""
     input_storage = create_storage(config.input_storage)
-    input_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(input_storage)
 
     output_storage = create_storage(config.output_storage)
+    output_table_provider = create_table_provider(config.table_provider, output_storage)
+
     cache = create_cache(config.cache)
 
     # load existing state in case any workflows are stateful
@@ -56,13 +57,16 @@ async def run_pipeline(
         update_timestamp = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
         timestamped_storage = update_storage.child(update_timestamp)
         delta_storage = timestamped_storage.child("delta")
-        delta_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(delta_storage)
+        delta_table_provider = create_table_provider(
+            config.table_provider, delta_storage
+        )
         # copy the previous output to a backup folder, so we can replace it with the update
         # we'll read from this later when we merge the old and new indexes
         previous_storage = timestamped_storage.child("previous")
-        previous_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(previous_storage)
+        previous_table_provider = create_table_provider(
+            config.table_provider, previous_storage
+        )
 
-        output_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(output_storage)
         await _copy_previous_output(output_table_provider, previous_table_provider)
 
         state["update_timestamp"] = update_timestamp
@@ -74,7 +78,6 @@ async def run_pipeline(
 
         context = create_run_context(
             input_storage=input_storage,
-            input_table_provider=input_table_provider,
             output_storage=delta_storage,
             output_table_provider=delta_table_provider,
             previous_table_provider=previous_table_provider,
@@ -88,15 +91,13 @@ async def run_pipeline(
 
         # if the user passes in a df directly, write directly to storage so we can skip finding/parsing later
         if input_documents is not None:
-            output_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(output_storage)
             await output_table_provider.write_dataframe("documents", input_documents)
             pipeline.remove("load_input_documents")
 
         context = create_run_context(
             input_storage=input_storage,
-            input_table_provider=input_table_provider,
             output_storage=output_storage,
-            output_table_provider=ParquetTableProvider(storage=output_storage),
+            output_table_provider=output_table_provider,
             cache=cache,
             callbacks=callbacks,
             state=state,
diff --git a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/utils.py b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/utils.py
index 207e9561a0..b85459bf74 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/utils.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/run/utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 from graphrag_storage import Storage, create_storage
 from graphrag_storage.memory_storage import MemoryStorage
 from graphrag_storage.tables.parquet_table_provider import ParquetTableProvider
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider import TableProvider
+from graphrag_storage.tables.table_provider_factory import create_table_provider
 
 from graphrag.callbacks.noop_workflow_callbacks import NoopWorkflowCallbacks
 from graphrag.callbacks.workflow_callbacks import WorkflowCallbacks
@@ -20,10 +22,9 @@
 
 def create_run_context(
     input_storage: Storage | None = None,
-    input_table_provider: ParquetTableProvider | None = None,
     output_storage: Storage | None = None,
-    output_table_provider: ParquetTableProvider | None = None,
-    previous_table_provider: ParquetTableProvider | None = None,
+    output_table_provider: TableProvider | None = None,
+    previous_table_provider: TableProvider | None = None,
     cache: Cache | None = None,
     callbacks: WorkflowCallbacks | None = None,
     stats: PipelineRunStats | None = None,
@@ -34,8 +35,6 @@ def create_run_context(
     output_storage = output_storage or MemoryStorage()
     return PipelineRunContext(
         input_storage=input_storage,
-        input_table_provider=input_table_provider
-        or ParquetTableProvider(storage=input_storage),
         output_storage=output_storage,
         output_table_provider=output_table_provider
         or ParquetTableProvider(storage=output_storage),
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ def create_callback_chain(
 
 def get_update_table_providers(
     config: GraphRagConfig, timestamp: str
-) -> tuple[ParquetTableProvider, ParquetTableProvider, ParquetTableProvider]:
+) -> tuple[TableProvider, TableProvider, TableProvider]:
     """Get table providers for the update index run."""
     output_storage = create_storage(config.output_storage)
     update_storage = create_storage(config.update_output_storage)
@@ -67,8 +66,10 @@ def get_update_table_providers(
     delta_storage = timestamped_storage.child("delta")
     previous_storage = timestamped_storage.child("previous")
 
-    output_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(output_storage)
-    previous_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(previous_storage)
-    delta_table_provider = ParquetTableProvider(delta_storage)
+    output_table_provider = create_table_provider(config.table_provider, output_storage)
+    previous_table_provider = create_table_provider(
+        config.table_provider, previous_storage
+    )
+    delta_table_provider = create_table_provider(config.table_provider, delta_storage)
 
     return output_table_provider, previous_table_provider, delta_table_provider
diff --git a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/typing/context.py b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/typing/context.py
index f606218dd2..277e41f090 100644
--- a/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/typing/context.py
+++ b/packages/graphrag/graphrag/index/typing/context.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ class PipelineRunContext:
     stats: PipelineRunStats
     input_storage: Storage
     "Storage for reading input documents."
-    input_table_provider: TableProvider
-    "Table provider for reading input tables."
     output_storage: Storage
     "Long-term storage for pipeline verbs to use. Items written here will be written to the storage provider."
     output_table_provider: TableProvider