Connect to Marketo Data in as an External Source in Dremio

The CData JDBC Driver for Marketo implements JDBC Standards and allows various applications, including Dremio, to work with live Marketo data. Dremio is a data lakehouse platform designed to empower self-service, interactive analytics on the data lake. With the CData JDBC Driver, you can include live Marketo data as a part of your enterprise data lake. This article describes how to connect to Marketo data from Dremio as an External Source.

The CData JDBC Driver enables high-speed access to live Marketo data in Dremio. Once you install the driver, authenticate with Marketo and gain immediate access to Marketo data within your data lake. By surfacing Marketo data using native data types and handling complex filters, aggregations, & other operations automatically, the CData JDBC Driver grants seamless access to Marketo data.

Build the ARP Connector

To use the CData JDBC Driver in Dremio, you need to build an Advanced Relation Pushdown (ARP) Connector. You can view the source code for the Connector on GitHub or download the ZIP file (GitHub.com) directly. Once you copy or extract the files, run the following command from the root directory of the connector (the directory containing the pom.xml file) to build the connector.

mvn clean install

Once the JAR file for the connector is built (in the target directory), you are ready to copy the ARP connector and JDBC Driver to your Dremio instance.

Installing the Connector and JDBC Driver

Install the ARP Connector to %DREMIO_HOME%/jars/ and the JDBC Driver for Marketo to %DREMIO_HOME%/jars/3rdparty. You can use commands similar to the following:

ARP Connector

docker cp PATH\TO\dremio-marketo-plugin-20.0.0.jar dremio_image_name:/opt/dremio/jars/

JDBC Driver for Marketo

docker cp PATH\TO\cdata.jdbc.marketo.jar dremio_image_name:/opt/dremio/jars/3rdparty/

Connecting to Marketo

Marketo will now appear as an External Source option in Dremio. The ARP Connector built uses a JDBC URL to connect to Marketo data. The JDBC Driver has a built-in connection string designer that you can use (see below).

Built-in Connection String Designer

For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Marketo JDBC Driver. Double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command line.

java -jar cdata.jdbc.marketo.jar

Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

Both the REST and SOAP APIs are supported and can be chosen by using the Schema property.

For the REST API: The OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and RESTEndpoint properties, under the OAuth and REST Connection sections, must be set to valid Marketo user credentials.

For the SOAP API: The UserId, EncryptionKey, and SOAPEndpoint properties, under the SOAP Connection section, must be set to valid Marketo user credentials.

See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to obtaining these values.

NOTE: To use the JDBC Driver in Dremio, you will need a license (full or trial) and a Runtime Key (RTK). For more information on obtaining this license (or a trial), contact our sales team.

Add the Runtime Key (RTK) to the JDBC URL. You will end up with a JDBC URL similar to the following:

jdbc:marketo:RTK=5246...;Schema=REST;RESTEndpoint=https://311-IFS-929.mktorest.com/rest;OAuthClientId=MyOAuthClientId;OAuthClientSecret=MyOAuthClientSecret;

Access Marketo as an External Source

To add Marketo as an External Source, click to add a new source and select Marketo. Copy the JDBC URL and paste it into the New Marketo Source wizard.

Save the connection and you are ready to query live Marketo data in Dremio, easily incorporating Marketo data into your data lake.

More Information & Free Trial

Using the CData JDBC Driver for Marketo in Dremio, you can incorporate live Marketo data into your data lake. Check out our CData JDBC Driver for Marketo page for more information about connecting to Marketo. Download a free, 30 day trial of the CData JDBC Driver for Marketo and get started today.