Automated Continuous Twitter Replication to Snowflake

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Twitter data into your Snowflake instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure Snowflake as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Twitter data to Snowflake. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select Snowflake as a destination.
3. Enter the necessary connection properties. To connect to Snowflake, set the following:
   • User: The username provided for authentication with the Snowflake database
   • Password: The Snowflake user's password
   • AuthScheme: The authentication scheme used. Accepted entries are PASSWORD, OKTA
   • Account: The Account provided for authentication with Snowflake
   • URL: the URL of the Snowflake database instance, for example: https://myaccount.snowflakecomputing.com
   • Warehouse: The name of the Snowflake warehouse
   • Database: The name of the Snowflake database
   • Schema: The schema of the Snowflake database
4. Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure the Twitter Connection

You can configure a connection to Twitter from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Twitter account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (Twitter).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   All tables require authentication. You can connect using your User and Password or OAuth. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can register an app to obtain your own.

   If you intend to communicate with Twitter only as the currently authenticated user, then you can obtain the OAuthAccessToken and OAuthAccessTokenSecret directly by registering an app.

   See the Getting Started chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

4. Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, click Add Tables in the Tables section, choose the table(s) you wish to replicate, and click Add Selected Tables.

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication.

Schedule Your Replication

In the Schedule section, you can schedule a job to run automatically, configuring the job to run after specified intervals ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Twitter data to Snowflake.