Connect to WooCommerce Data in as an External Source in Dremio

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

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

ARP Connector

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

JDBC Driver for WooCommerce

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

Connecting to WooCommerce

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

java -jar cdata.jdbc.woocommerce.jar

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

WooCommerce supports the following authentication methods: one-legged OAuth1.0 Authentication and standard OAuth2.0 Authentication.

Connecting using one-legged OAuth 1.0 Authentication

Specify the following properties (NOTE: the below credentials are generated from WooCommerce settings page and should not be confused with the credentials generated by using WordPress OAuth2.0 plugin):

• ConsumerKey
• ConsumerSecret

Connecting using WordPress OAuth 2.0 Authentication

After having configured the plugin, you may connect to WooCommerce by providing the following connection properties:

• OAuthClientId
• OAuthClientSecret
• CallbackURL
• InitiateOAuth - Set this to either GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH

In either case, you will need to set the Url property to the URL of the WooCommerce instance.

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:woocommerce:RTK=5246...;Url=https://example.com/; ConsumerKey=ck_ec52c76185c088ecaa3145287c8acba55a6f59ad; ConsumerSecret=cs_9fde14bf57126156701a7563fc87575713c355e5; InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH

Access WooCommerce as an External Source

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

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

More Information & Free Trial

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