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Use CData Connect Cloud to build ELT pipelines for Cloudant data in Airbyte.
Airbyte empowers users to load your data into any data warehouse, data lake, or database. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, Airbyte users can create Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipelines directly from live Cloudant data. This article illustrates the process of connecting to Cloudant through Connect Cloud and constructing ELT pipelines for Cloudant data within Airbyte.
CData Connect Cloud offers a dedicated SQL Server interface for Cloudant, facilitating data querying without the need for data replication to a native database. With built-in optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect Cloud efficiently directs all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, straight to Cloudant. This harnesses server-side processing to swiftly retrieve the desired Cloudant data.
Configure Cloudant Connectivity for Airbyte
Connectivity to Cloudant from Airbyte is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Cloudant data from Airbyte, we start by creating and configuring a Cloudant connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Cloudant" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Cloudant.
Set the following connection properties to connect to Cloudant:
- User: Set this to your username.
- Password: Set this to your password.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Cloudant Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
Connect to Cloudant from Airbyte
To establish a connection from Airbyte to CData Connect Cloud, follow these steps.
- Log in to your Airbyte account
- On the left panel, click Sources, then Add New Source
- Set Source Type to MSSQL Server to connect the TDS endpoint
- Set Source Name
- Set Host URL to tds.cdata.com
- Set Port to 14333
- Set Database to the name of the connection you previously configured, e.g. Cloudant1.
- Set Username to your Connect Cloud username
- Set SSL Method to Encrypted (trust server certificate), leave the Replication Method as standard, and set SSH Tunnel Method to No Tunnel
- (Optional) Set Schema to anything you want to apply to the source
- Set Password to your Connect Cloud PAT
- (Optional) Enter any needed JBDC URL Params
- Click Test and Save to create the data source.
Create ELT Pipelines for Cloudant Data
To connect Cloudant data with a new destination, click Connections and then Set Up Connection to connect to your destination. Select the source created above and your desired destination, then allow Airbyte to process. When it is done, your connection is ready for use.
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