Automated Continuous Azure Analysis Services Replication to Vertica

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

Configure Vertica as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Azure Analysis Services data to Vertica. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select Vertica as a destination.
3. Enter the necessary connection properties:
   • Server: The host name or IP address of the Vertica database.
   • Database: The name of the database hosted on the Vertica Server.
   • User: The username of the authenticating Vertica database user.
   • Password: The password of the authenticating Vertica database user.
   • Port: The port for Vertica (5443 by default). This property is optional.
4. Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure the Azure Analysis Services Connection

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

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

   To connect to Azure Analysis Services, set the Url property to a valid server, for instance, asazure://southcentralus.asazure.windows.net/server, in addition to authenticating. Optionally, set Database to distinguish which Azure database on the server to connect to.

   Azure Analysis Services uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Azure Analysis Services using the browser. You can connect without setting any connection properties for your user credentials. See the Help documentation for more information.

4. Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save 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, click Add Tables in the Tables section, choose the table(s) you wish to replicate, and click Add Selected Tables.

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.

Schedule Your Replication

In the Schedule section, you can schedule a job to run automatically, configuring the job to run after 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 Azure Analysis Services data to Vertica.