OrientDB Manual 1.7.8

ETL - Extractors

Extractor components are the first part of the ETL process responsible of extracting data.

Available Extractors
row jdbc json

row

Extracts content row by row.

  • Component name: row
  • Output class: [String]

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value

Example

{ "row": {} }

JDBC

Extracts data from any DBMS that support JDBC driver. In order to get the ETL component to connect to the source database, put the DBMS's JDBC driver in the classpath or $ORIENTDB_HOME/lib directory.

  • Component name: jdbc
  • Output class: [ODocument]

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value
driver JDBC Driver class string true -
url JDBC URL to connect string true -
userName DBMS User name string true -
userPassword DBMS User password string true -
query Query that extract the record to import string true -
queryCount Query that return the count of the fetched records. This is used to provide a correct progress indicator string false -

Example

Extracts all the Client from the MySQL database "test" hosted on localhost:

{ "jdbc": {
    "driver": "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver",
    "url": "jdbc:mysql://localhost/test",
    "userName": "root",
    "userPassword": "",
    "query": "select * from Client"
  }
}

json

Extracts content by parsing json objects. If the content has more json items must be enclosed between [].

  • Component name: json
  • Output class: [ODocument]

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value

Example

{ "json": {} }