Automate Vimeo Data Replication to SAP HANA

Mohsin Turki
Mohsin Turki
Technical Marketing Engineer
Use CData Sync to customize and automate Vimeo data replication to SAP HANA.

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

Configure SAP HANA as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Vimeo data to SAP HANA. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

  1. Click Add Connection.
  2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the SAP HANA connector.
  3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. If the Configure Connection icon is not available, click the Download Connector icon to install the SAP HANA connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
  4. To connect to SAP HANA, set the following connection properties:
    • Server: Enter the IP address or name of the server you want to connect to.
    • Port: Enter the port where the server is running.
    • Auth Scheme: Select the Auth Scheme as Password. The Auth Schemes available on CData Sync are Password, OKTA, and Kerberos.
    • Database: Enter the name of the database.
    • User: Enter the username of a user with read/write access to the database.
    • Password: Enter the password of a user with read/write access to the database.
  5. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to SAP HANA and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Vimeo data into SAP HANA and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Vimeo Connection

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

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

    Vimeo is a professional video hosting platform. The Vimeo API uses personal access tokens (bearer tokens) to enable secure access to video metadata, user information, channels, groups, categories, and related resources.

    Using API Key Authentication

    To authenticate to the Vimeo API, you will need to provide a personal access token. To obtain your access token:

    1. Log in to your Vimeo account at https://vimeo.com
    2. Navigate to https://developer.vimeo.com/apps
    3. Create a new app or select an existing app
    4. Under "Personal Access Tokens", click "Generate" to create a new token
    5. Select the required scopes: public and private for read access
    6. Copy the generated token

    After obtaining your access token, set the following connection properties:

    • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
    • APIKey: Set this to your Vimeo personal access token.

    Example connection string

    Profile=C:\profiles\Vimeo.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_personal_access_token';
    

  4. Click Connect to Vimeo to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
  5. Click Save & Test to save the 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, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of Vimeo tables you wish to replicate into SAP HANA, and click Add Tasks again.

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 with the help of SQL queries.

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at 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 Vimeo data to SAP HANA.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Vimeo table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

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