Connect to Confluence Data in as an External Source in Dremio

The CData JDBC Driver for Confluence implements JDBC Standards and allows various applications, including Dremio, to work with live Confluence 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 Confluence data as a part of your enterprise data lake. This article describes how to connect to Confluence data from Dremio as an External Source.

The CData JDBC Driver enables high-speed access to live Confluence data in Dremio. Once you install the driver, authenticate with Confluence and gain immediate access to Confluence data within your data lake. By surfacing Confluence data using native data types and handling complex filters, aggregations, & other operations automatically, the CData JDBC Driver grants seamless access to Confluence 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 Confluence to %DREMIO_HOME%/jars/3rdparty. You can use commands similar to the following:

ARP Connector

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

JDBC Driver for Confluence

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

Connecting to Confluence

Confluence will now appear as an External Source option in Dremio. The ARP Connector built uses a JDBC URL to connect to Confluence 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 Confluence JDBC Driver. Double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command line.

java -jar cdata.jdbc.confluence.jar

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

Obtaining an API Token

An API token is necessary for account authentication. To generate one, login to your Atlassian account and navigate to API tokens > Create API token. The generated token will be displayed.

Connect Using a Confluence Cloud Account

To connect to a Cloud account, provide the following (Note: Password has been deprecated for connecting to a Cloud Account and is now used only to connect to a Server Instance.):

• User: The user which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence server.
• APIToken: The API Token associated with the currently authenticated user.
• Url: The URL associated with your JIRA endpoint. For example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

Connect Using a Confluence Server Instance

To connect to a Server instance, provide the following:

• User: The user which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence instance.
• Password: The password which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence server.
• Url: The URL associated with your JIRA endpoint. For example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

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:confluence:RTK=5246...;User=admin;APIToken=myApiToken;Url=https://yoursitename.atlassian.net;Timezone=America/New_York;

Access Confluence as an External Source

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

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

More Information & Free Trial

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