Learn about the fields used to create a Splice Machine connection with ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Here is a list of the fields for a Splice Machine connection in ThoughtSpot DataFlow. You need specific information to establish a seamless and secure connection.
Connection properties
- Connection name
- Name your connection.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
SpliceMachineConnection - Connection type
- Choose the Splice Machine connection type.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
Splice Machine - Host
- Specify the hostname or the IP address of the Splice Machine system
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
www.example.com - Port
- Specify the port associated with the Splice Machine system
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
1234 - User
- Specify the user id that will be used to connect to the Splice Machine system. This user should have necessary privileges to access the data in the databases.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
userdi - Password
- Specify the password for the User
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
pswrd234%! - Database
- Collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
splicedb - Hadoop version
- Specify the version of Hadoop you are using
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
HDP_2.6.4 - HDFS host
- Specify the hostname or the IP address of the HDFS
- Optional field.
- Example:
www.example.com - Other notes:
Advanced configuration - HDFS port
- Specify the port associated to the HDFS
- Optional field.
- Example:
1235 - Other notes:
Advanced configuration - HDFS temp location
- Specify the HDFS location for creating temp directory
- Optional field.
- Example:
/user/splice/tmp - Other notes:
Advanced configuration - JDBC options
- Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL.
- Optional field.
- Example:
jdbc:sqlserver://[serverName[\instanceName][:portNumber]] - Other notes:
Advanced configuration
Sync properties
- Data extraction mode
- Specify the extraction type.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
JDBC - Valid Values:
JDBC, BULK Export - Default:
JDBC - Column delimiter
- Specify the column delimiter character.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
1 - Valid Values:
Any printable ASCII character or decimal value for ASCII character - Default:
1 - Enclosing character
- Specify if the text columns in the source data needs to be enclosed in quotes.
- Optional field.
- Example:
DOUBLE - Valid Values:
SINGLE, DOUBLE - Default:
DOUBLE - Other notes:
This is required if the text data has newline character or delimiter character. - Escape character
- Specify the escape character if using a text qualifier in the source data.
- Optional field.
- Example:
\" - Valid Values:
Any ASCII character - Default:
\" - Fetch size
- Specify the number of rows at a time to fetch and process in memory. If you specify zero, the system extracts all rows at once.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
1000 - Valid Values:
Any numeric value - Default:
1000 - TS load options
- Specifies the parameters passed with the
tsloadcommand, in addition to the commands already included by the application. The format for these parameters is:--<param_1_name> <optional_param_1_value>--<param_2_name> <optional_param_2_value> - Optional field.
- Example:
--max_ignored_rows 0 - Valid Values:
--user "dbuser" --password "$DIWD" --target_database "ditest" --target_schema "falcon_schema" - Default:
--max_ignored_rows 0