Vertica
Learn the required and optional properties of creating a Vertica Connection, Credential, Read Connector, and Write Connector.
Prerequisites
- Access credentials
- Database name
Connection Properties
The following table describes the fields available when creating a new Vertica Connection. Create a connection using the information below and these step-by-step instructions.
Field | Required | Description |
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Access Type | Required | This connection type is Read-Only, Write-Only, or Read-Write. |
Connection Name | Required | Input your desired name. |
Host | Required | IP or the hostname of the Vertica Server. |
Port | Required | Host server port number. |
Database Name | Required | Name of the database. |
Custom Connection Properties | Optional | Formatted as key=value pair. Include additional properties you'd like to store within the Connection. |
Requires Credentials | Optional | Check this box to create a new credential or select an existing credential. |
Credential Properties
The following table describes the fields available when creating a new {connection type name} credential.
Field | Required | Description |
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Credential Name | Required | The name to identify this credential with. This credential will be available as a selection for future use. |
Credential Type | Required | This field will automatically populate with Vertica . |
User | Required | Vertica data warehouse username to connect with. |
Password | Optional | Vertica data warehouse password to connect with. Not required if you are connecting to a public database. |
Read Connector Properties
The following table describes the fields available when creating a new Vertica Read Connector. Create a new Read Connector using the information below and these step-by-step instructions.
Field | Required | Description |
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Name | Required | Provide a name for your connector. We recommend using lowercase with underscores in place of spaces. |
Description | Optional | Describes the connector. We recommend providing a description if you are ingesting information from the same source multiple times for different reasons. |
Table Name | Required | Name of the table being ingested. This can either be supplied manually or selected in Step 2 of Create a Read Connector. |
Schema Name | Optional | The name of the schema of the table entered above that you wish to use specifically. |
Replication Strategy | Optional | Full Resync, Full Resync in Parallel, Incremental Column, Table Snapshot, or Table Snapshot in Parallel. See Database Reading Strategies for more information. |
Data Version | Optional | Assign a Data Version. A change to Data Version results in no longer using data previously ingested by this Connector, and a complete ingest of new data. |
Write Connector Properties
The following table describes the fields available when creating a new Vertica Write Connector. Create a new Write Connector using the information below and these step-by-step instructions.
Field Name | Required | Description |
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Name | Required | Provide a name for your connector. We recommend using lowercase with underscores in place of spaces. |
Description | Optional | Describes the connector. We recommend providing a description if you are ingesting information from the same source multiple times for different reasons. |
Upstream | Required | The name of the previous connector the Write Connector will pull data from. |
Table Name | Required | The name of the table that will be written to Vertica. |
Write Strategy | Required | The strategy to copy data into Vertica. The Full Load strategy will replace the entire table's contents each time that the upstream transform has changed. If the upstream data set contains multiple Ascend partitions and not all partitions are expected to change on each update, then the Incremental By Partition strategy allows for Ascend to only update/insert/delete the partitions of the table that have changed in Ascend. |
Max Number of Parallel Ascend Partitions | Optional | Ascend can write partitions in parallel. Ex.: If a transform has 2000 partitions and you set the max parallel to 100, Ascend will write partitions 100 at a time. |
A SQL Statement for Ascend to Execute Before Writing | Optional | Here, the user has the option to execute a pre-processing script before writing to final table. |
A SQL Statement for Ascend to Execute After Writing | Optional | Here, the user has the option to execute a pre-processing script after writing to final table. |
Schema Name | Optional | The name of the schema to match. |
Data Version | Optional | Assign a Data Version. A change to Data Version results in no longer using data previously ingested by this Connector, and a complete ingest of new data. |
Updated 8 months ago