The target-redshift Meltano loader pulls data from Amazon Redshift that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.
Other Available Variants
- transferwise (default)
Getting Started
Prerequisites
If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:
Installation and configuration
-
Add the target-redshift loader to your project
using
:meltano add
-
Configure the target-redshift settings using
:meltano config
meltano add loader target-redshift
meltano config target-redshift set --interactive
Next steps
Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:
If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.
Capabilities
The current capabilities fortarget-redshift
may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the
capabilities when using this loader. If you find they are out of date, please
consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the
capabilities for this loader.This plugin has the following capabilities:
- activate-version
- soft-delete
- hard-delete
- datatype-failsafe
- record-flattening
You can
override these capabilities or specify additional ones
in your meltano.yml
by adding the capabilities
key.
Settings
The
target-redshift
settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly
find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:
host
port
dbname
user
password
s3_bucket
default_target_schema
aws_profile
aws_access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key
aws_session_token
aws_redshift_copy_role_arn
s3_acl
s3_key_prefix
copy_options
batch_size_rows
flush_all_streams
parallelism
max_parallelism
default_target_schema_select_permissions
schema_mapping
disable_table_cache
add_metadata_columns
hard_delete
data_flattening_max_level
primary_key_required
validate_records
skip_updates
compression
slices
temp_dir
You can
override these settings or specify additional ones
in your meltano.yml
by adding the settings
key.
Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.
Host (host)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_HOST
Redshift host
Port (port)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_PORT
-
Default Value:
5439
Redshift port
Database Name (dbname)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_DBNAME
Redshift database name
User name (user)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_USER
Redshift user name
Password (password)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_PASSWORD
Redshift password
S3 Bucket name (s3_bucket)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_S3_BUCKET
AWS S3 bucket name
Default Target Schema (default_target_schema)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_DEFAULT_TARGET_SCHEMA
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Default Value:
$MELTANO_EXTRACT__LOAD_SCHEMA
Note $MELTANO_EXTRACT__LOAD_SCHEMA
will expand to the value of the load_schema
extra for the extractor used in the pipeline, which defaults to the extractor's namespace, e.g. tap_gitlab
for tap-gitlab
.
Name of the schema where the tables will be created. If schema_mapping
is not defined then every stream sent by the tap is loaded into this schema.
AWS Profile Name (aws_profile)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_AWS_PROFILE
AWS profile name for profile based authentication. If not provided, AWS_PROFILE
environment variable will be used.
AWS S3 Access Key ID (aws_access_key_id)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
S3 Access Key Id. Used for S3 and Redshift copy operations. If not provided, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
environment variable will be used.
AWS S3 Secret Access Key (aws_secret_access_key)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
S3 Secret Access Key. Used for S3 and Redshift copy operations. If not provided, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
environment variable will be used.
AWS S3 Session Token (aws_session_token)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
S3 AWS STS token for temporary credentials. If not provided, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
environment variable will be used.
AWS Redshift COPY role ARN (aws_redshift_copy_role_arn)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_AWS_REDSHIFT_COPY_ROLE_ARN
AWS Role ARN to be used for the Redshift COPY operation. Used instead of the given AWS keys for the COPY operation if provided - the keys are still used for other S3 operations
AWS S3 ACL (s3_acl)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_S3_ACL
S3 Object ACL
S3 Key Prefix (s3_key_prefix)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_S3_KEY_PREFIX
A static prefix before the generated S3 key names. Using prefixes you can upload files into specific directories in the S3 bucket. Default(None)
COPY options (copy_options)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_COPY_OPTIONS
-
Default Value:
EMPTYASNULL BLANKSASNULL TRIMBLANKS TRUNCATECOLUMNS TIMEFORMAT 'auto' COMPUPDATE OFF STATUPDATE OFF
Parameters to use in the COPY command when loading data to Redshift.
Some basic file formatting parameters are fixed values and not recommended overriding them by custom values.
They are like: CSV GZIP DELIMITER ',' REMOVEQUOTES ESCAPE
.
Batch Size Rows (batch_size_rows)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_BATCH_SIZE_ROWS
-
Default Value:
100000
Maximum number of rows in each batch. At the end of each batch, the rows in the batch are loaded into Redshift.
Flush All Streams (flush_all_streams)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_FLUSH_ALL_STREAMS
-
Default Value:
false
Flush and load every stream into Redshift when one batch is full. Warning - This may trigger the COPY command to use files with low number of records, and may cause performance problems.
Parallelism (parallelism)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_PARALLELISM
-
Default Value:
0
The number of threads used to flush tables. 0 will create a thread for each stream, up to parallelism_max. -1 will create a thread for each CPU core. Any other positive number will create that number of threads, up to parallelism_max.
Max Parallelism (max_parallelism)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_MAX_PARALLELISM
-
Default Value:
16
Max number of parallel threads to use when flushing tables.
Default Target Schema Select Permission (default_target_schema_select_permissions)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_DEFAULT_TARGET_SCHEMA_SELECT_PERMISSIONS
Grant USAGE privilege on newly created schemas and grant SELECT privilege on newly created tables to a specific list of users or groups. If schema_mapping
is not defined then every stream sent by the tap is granted accordingly.
Scema Mapping (schema_mapping)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_SCHEMA_MAPPING
Useful if you want to load multiple streams from one tap to multiple Redshift schemas.
If the tap sends the stream_id
in <schema_name>-<table_name>
format then this option overwrites the default_target_schema
value.
Note, that using schema_mapping
you can overwrite the default_target_schema_select_permissions
value to grant SELECT permissions to different groups per schemas or optionally
you can create indices automatically for the replicated tables.
Disable Table Cache (disable_table_cache)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_DISABLE_TABLE_CACHE
-
Default Value:
false
By default the connector caches the available table structures in Redshift at startup. In this way it doesn't need to run additional queries when ingesting data to check if altering the target tables is required. With disable_table_cache
option you can turn off this caching. You will always see the most recent table structures but will cause an extra query runtime.
Add Metdata Columns (add_metadata_columns)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_ADD_METADATA_COLUMNS
-
Default Value:
false
Metadata columns add extra row level information about data ingestions,
(i.e. when was the row read in source, when was inserted or deleted in redshift
etc.) Metadata columns are creating automatically by adding extra columns to the
tables with a column prefix _SDC_
.
The metadata columns are documented at https://transferwise.github.io/pipelinewise/data_structure/sdc-columns.html. Enabling metadata columns will flag the deleted rows by setting the _SDC_DELETED_AT metadata column.
Without the add_metadata_columns
option the deleted rows from
singer taps will not be recongisable in Redshift.
Hard Delete (hard_delete)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_HARD_DELETE
-
Default Value:
false
When hard_delete
option is true then DELETE SQL commands will be performed in Redshift to delete rows in tables. It's achieved by continuously checking the _SDC_DELETED_AT
metadata column sent by the singer tap. Due to deleting rows requires metadata columns, hard_delete
option automatically enables the add_metadata_columns
option as well.
Data Flattening Max Level (data_flattening_max_level)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_DATA_FLATTENING_MAX_LEVEL
-
Default Value:
0
Object type RECORD
items from taps can be loaded into VARIANT columns as JSON (default) or we can flatten the schema by creating columns automatically. When value is 0 (default) then flattening functionality is turned off.
Primary Key Required (primary_key_required)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_PRIMARY_KEY_REQUIRED
-
Default Value:
true
Log based and Incremental replications on tables with no Primary Key cause duplicates when merging UPDATE events. When set to true, stop loading data if no Primary Key is defined.
Validate Records (validate_records)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_VALIDATE_RECORDS
-
Default Value:
false
Validate every single record message to the corresponding JSON schema. This option is disabled by default and invalid RECORD
messages will fail only at load time by Redshift. Enabling this option will detect invalid records earlier but could cause performance degradation.
Skip Updates (skip_updates)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_SKIP_UPDATES
-
Default Value:
false
Do not update existing records when Primary Key is defined. Useful to improve performance when records are immutable, e.g. events
Compression (compression)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_COMPRESSION
The compression method to use when writing files to S3 and running Redshift COPY.
Slices (slices)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_SLICES
-
Default Value:
1
The number of slices to split files into prior to running COPY on Redshift. This should be set to the number of Redshift slices. The number of slices per node depends on the node size of the cluster - run SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT slice) slices FROM stv_slices to calculate this. Defaults to 1.
Temp Directory (temp_dir)
-
Environment variable:
TARGET_REDSHIFT_TEMP_DIR
(Default: platform-dependent) Directory of temporary CSV files with RECORD messages.
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