Connect to Live Adobe Commerce Data in PostGresSQL Interface through CData Connect Cloud

There are a vast number of PostgreSQL clients available on the Internet. PostgreSQL is a popular interface for data access. When you pair PostgreSQL with CData Connect Cloud, you gain database-like access to live Adobe Commerce data from PostgreSQL. In this article, we walk through the process of connecting to Adobe Commerce data in Connect Cloud and establishing a connection between Connect Cloud and PostgreSQL using a TDS foreign data wrapper (FDW).

CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for Adobe Commerce, allowing you to query data from Adobe Commerce without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Adobe Commerce, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Adobe Commerce data quickly.

Connect to Adobe Commerce in Connect Cloud

CData Connect Cloud uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources.

1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
2. Select "Adobe Commerce" from the Add Connection panel
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Adobe Commerce.

   Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, you will need to obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

   You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

   • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

   • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

     If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

4. Click Create & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Adobe Commerce Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
3. Give your PAT a name and click Create.
4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

Build the TDS Foreign Data Wrapper

The Foreign Data Wrapper can be installed as an extension to PostgreSQL, without recompiling PostgreSQL. The tds_fdw extension is used as an example (https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw).

1. You can clone and build the git repository via something like the following view source: sudo apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw.git cd tds_fdw make USE_PGXS=1 sudo make USE_PGXS=1 install Note: If you have several PostgreSQL versions and you do not want to build for the default one, first locate where the binary for pg_config is, take note of the full path, and then append PG_CONFIG= after USE_PGXS=1 at the make commands.
2. After you finish the installation, then start the server: sudo service postgresql start
3. Then go inside the Postgres database psql -h localhost -U postgres -d postgres Note: Instead of localhost you can put the IP where your PostgreSQL is hosted.

Connect to Adobe Commerce data as a PostgreSQL Database and query the data!

After you have installed the extension, follow the steps below to start executing queries to Adobe Commerce data:

1. Log into your database.
2. Load the extension for the database: CREATE EXTENSION tds_fdw;
3. Create a server object for Adobe Commerce data: CREATE SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER tds_fdw OPTIONS (servername'tds.cdata.com', port '14333', database 'Adobe Commerce1');
4. Configure user mapping with your email and Personal Access Token from your Connect Cloud account: CREATE USER MAPPING for postgres SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" OPTIONS (username 'username@cdata.com', password 'your_personal_access_token' );
5. Create the local schema: CREATE SCHEMA "Adobe Commerce1";
6. Create a foreign table in your local database: #Using a table_name definition: CREATE FOREIGN TABLE "Adobe Commerce1".Products ( id varchar, Price varchar) SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" OPTIONS(table_name 'Adobe Commerce.Products', row_estimate_method 'showplan_all'); #Or using a schema_name and table_name definition: CREATE FOREIGN TABLE "Adobe Commerce1".Products ( id varchar, Price varchar) SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" OPTIONS (schema_name 'Adobe Commerce', table_name 'Products', row_estimate_method 'showplan_all'); #Or using a query definition: CREATE FOREIGN TABLE "Adobe Commerce1".Products ( id varchar, Price varchar) SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" OPTIONS (query 'SELECT * FROM Adobe Commerce.Products', row_estimate_method 'showplan_all'); #Or setting a remote column name: CREATE FOREIGN TABLE "Adobe Commerce1".Products ( id varchar, col2 varchar OPTIONS (column_name 'Price')) SERVER "Adobe Commerce1" OPTIONS (schema_name 'Adobe Commerce', table_name 'Products', row_estimate_method 'showplan_all');
7. You can now execute read/write commands to Adobe Commerce: SELECT id, Price FROM "Adobe Commerce1".Products;

More Information & Free Trial

Now, you have created a simple query from live Adobe Commerce data. For more information on connecting to Adobe Commerce (and more than 100 other data sources), visit the Connect Cloud page. Sign up for a free trial and start working with live Adobe Commerce data in PostgreSQL.