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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose SQL Connector #

Sink: Streaming Append Mode

The Kinesis Data Firehose connector allows for writing data into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (KDF).

Dependencies #

In order to use the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose connector the following dependencies are required for both projects using a build automation tool (such as Maven or SBT) and SQL Client with SQL JAR bundles.

Maven dependency SQL Client
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How to create a Kinesis Data Firehose table #

Follow the instructions from the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Developer Guide to set up a Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream. The following example shows how to create a table backed by a Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream with minimum required options:

CREATE TABLE FirehoseTable (
  `user_id` BIGINT,
  `item_id` BIGINT,
  `category_id` BIGINT,
  `behavior` STRING
)
WITH (
  'connector' = 'firehose',
  'delivery-stream' = 'user_behavior',
  'aws.region' = 'us-east-2',
  'format' = 'csv'
);

Connector Options #

Option Required Default Type Description
Common Options
connector
required (none) String Specify what connector to use. For Kinesis Data Firehose use 'firehose'.
delivery-stream
required (none) String Name of the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream backing this table.
format
required (none) String The format used to deserialize and serialize Kinesis Data Firehose records. See Data Type Mapping for details.
aws.region
required (none) String The AWS region where the delivery stream is defined. This option is required for KinesisFirehoseSink creation.
aws.endpoint
optional (none) String The AWS endpoint for Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.
aws.trust.all.certificates
optional false Boolean If true accepts all SSL certificates.
Authentication Options
aws.credentials.provider
optional AUTO String A credentials provider to use when authenticating against the Kinesis endpoint. See Authentication for details.
aws.credentials.basic.accesskeyid
optional (none) String The AWS access key ID to use when setting credentials provider type to BASIC.
aws.credentials.basic.secretkey
optional (none) String The AWS secret key to use when setting credentials provider type to BASIC.
aws.credentials.profile.path
optional (none) String Optional configuration for profile path if credential provider type is set to be PROFILE.
aws.credentials.profile.name
optional (none) String Optional configuration for profile name if credential provider type is set to be PROFILE.
aws.credentials.role.arn
optional (none) String The role ARN to use when credential provider type is set to ASSUME_ROLE or WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN.
aws.credentials.role.sessionName
optional (none) String The role session name to use when credential provider type is set to ASSUME_ROLE or WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN.
aws.credentials.role.externalId
optional (none) String The external ID to use when credential provider type is set to ASSUME_ROLE.
aws.credentials.role.provider
optional (none) String The credentials provider that provides credentials for assuming the role when credential provider type is set to ASSUME_ROLE. Roles can be nested, so this value can again be set to ASSUME_ROLE
aws.credentials.webIdentityToken.file
optional (none) String The absolute path to the web identity token file that should be used if provider type is set to WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN.
Sink Options
sink.http-client.max-concurrency
optional 10000 Integer Maximum number of allowed concurrent requests by FirehoseAsyncClient to be delivered to delivery stream.
sink.http-client.read-timeout
optional 360000 Integer Maximum amount of time in ms for requests to be sent by FirehoseAsyncClient to delivery stream before failure.
sink.http-client.protocol.version
optional HTTP2 String Http version used by FirehoseAsyncClient.
sink.batch.max-size
optional 500 Integer Maximum batch size of elements to be passed to FirehoseAsyncClient to be written downstream to delivery stream.
sink.requests.max-inflight
optional 16 Integer Request threshold for uncompleted requests by FirehoseAsyncClientbefore blocking new write requests.
sink.requests.max-buffered
optional 10000 String request buffer threshold by FirehoseAsyncClient before blocking new write requests.
sink.flush-buffer.size
optional 5242880 Long Threshold value in bytes for writer buffer in FirehoseAsyncClient before flushing.
sink.flush-buffer.timeout
optional 5000 Long Threshold time in ms for an element to be in a buffer of FirehoseAsyncClient before flushing.
sink.fail-on-error
optional false Boolean Flag used for retrying failed requests. If set any request failure will not be retried and will fail the job.

Authorization #

Make sure to create an appropriate IAM policy to allow reading writing to the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream.

Authentication #

Depending on your deployment you would choose a different Credentials Provider to allow access to Kinesis Data Firehose. By default, the AUTO Credentials Provider is used. If the access key ID and secret key are set in the deployment configuration, this results in using the BASIC provider.

A specific AWSCredentialsProvider can be optionally set using the aws.credentials.provider setting. Supported values are:

  • AUTO - Use the default AWS Credentials Provider chain that searches for credentials in the following order: ENV_VARS, SYS_PROPS, WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN, PROFILE, and EC2/ECS credentials provider.
  • BASIC - Use access key ID and secret key supplied as configuration.
  • ENV_VAR - Use AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.
  • SYS_PROP - Use Java system properties aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey.
  • PROFILE - Use an AWS credentials profile to create the AWS credentials.
  • ASSUME_ROLE - Create AWS credentials by assuming a role. The credentials for assuming the role must be supplied.
  • WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN - Create AWS credentials by assuming a role using Web Identity Token.

Data Type Mapping #

Kinesis Data Firehose stores records as Base64-encoded binary data objects, so it doesn’t have a notion of internal record structure. Instead, Kinesis Data Firehose records are deserialized and serialized by formats, e.g. ‘avro’, ‘csv’, or ‘json’. To determine the data type of the messages in your Kinesis Data Firehose backed tables, pick a suitable Flink format with the format keyword. Please refer to the Formats pages for more details.

Notice #

The current implementation for the Kinesis Data Firehose SQL connector only supports Kinesis Data Firehose backed sinks and doesn’t provide an implementation for source queries. Queries similar to:

SELECT * FROM FirehoseTable;

should result in an error similar to

Connector firehose can only be used as a sink. It cannot be used as a source.

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