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Version: 0.13.0

DuckDB Connector

The DuckDB Sink connector reads records from Fluvio topic, applies configured transformations, and sends new records to the SQL database (via INSERT statements).

SQL Model to DuckDB types mapping

The DuckDB Sink connector expects the data in Fluvio SQL Model in JSON format. In order to work with different data formats or data structures.

The following table shows the mapping between SQL Model and DuckDB types:

ModelDuckDB
Boolbool
Charstr
SmallInti16
Inti32
BigInti64
Floatf32
DoublePrecisionf64
Textstr
Bytes[u8]
NumericTODO
TimestampTimestamp
DateTODO
TimeTODO
UuidUUID
JsonJSON

Configuration

This connector can be configured using the following properties:

URL

A URL is path to duckdb database path. It can be any expression duckdb supports. For example, to use a local database, it can be my_duckdb_file.

To connect to Motherduck server, use prefix: md. For example, md://motherduck_path. Please see MotherDuck documentation for more details.

Example of opening to local duckdb

apiVersion: 0.1.0
meta:
  version: x.y.z
  name: duckdb-connector
  type: duckdb-sink
  topic: fluvio-topic-source
duckdb:
  url: 'local.db'    # local duckdb

Transformations

transformations can be applied. The transformation is a SmartModule pulled from the SmartModule Hub. Transformations are chained according to the order in the config. If a SmartModule requires configuration, it is passed via with section of transforms entry.

Secrets

The connector can use secrets in order to hide sensitive information. The example below uses secrets to pass the token to MotherDuck server.

apiVersion: 0.1.0
meta:
  version: x.y.z
  name: motherduck-connector
  type: duckdb-sink
  topic: sql-topic
  secrets:
    - name: MD_TOKEN
duckdb:
  url: "md:?token=${{ secrets.MD_TOKEN }}"

Usage Example

Let's look at the example of the connector with one transformation named infinyon/json-sql. The transformation takes records in JSON format and creates SQL insert operation to topic_message table. The value from device.device_id JSON field will be put to device_id column and the entire json body to record column.

The JSON record:

{
  "device": {
    "device_id": 1
  }
}

The SQL database (Postgres):

CREATE TABLE topic_message (device_id int, record json);

Connector configuration file:

# connector-config.yaml
apiVersion: 0.1.0
meta:
  version: x.y.z
  name: duckdb-connector
  type: duckdb-sink
  topic: sql-topic
  secrets:
    - name: MD_TOKEN
duckdb:
  url: "md:?token=${{ secrets.MD_TOKEN }}"
transforms:
  - uses: infinyon/json-sql@x.y.z
    with:
      mapping:
        table: "topic_message"
        map-columns:
          "device_id":
            json-key: "device.device_id"
            value:
              type: "int"
              default: "0"
              required: true
          "record":
            json-key: "$"
            value:
              type: "jsonb"
              required: true
info

All versions are marked with x.y.z. To find the latest version, run:

  • fluvio hub connector list
  • fluvio hub smartmodule list

You can use Fluvio cdk tool to deploy the connector:

cdk deploy start --config connector-config.yaml

To delete the connector run:

cdk deploy shutdown --name duckdb-connector

After you run the connector you will see records in your database table.