Connect to Streak Data in as an External Source in Dremio

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

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

ARP Connector

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

JDBC Driver for Streak

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

Connecting to Streak

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

java -jar cdata.jdbc.streak.jar

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

Use the following steps to generate a new API key for authenticating to Streak.

1. Navigate to Gmail
2. Click on the Streak dropdown to the right of the search bar
3. Select the Integrations button. This will open a window where you can view existing integrations and create new API keys.
4. Under the Streak API section of integrations, click the button to Create New Key.

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:streak:RTK=5246...;ApiKey=8c84j9b4j54762ce809ej6a782d776j3;

Access Streak as an External Source

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

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

More Information & Free Trial

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