Architecture

The DataStax workflow engine is the key architectural component responsible for the orchestration of DSBulk Loader operations.

The main features are:

  • Configuration: The workflow engine collects user-supplied settings, merges them with default values and configures the loading/unloading operation to run.

  • Connection: The workflow engine handles the driver connection to:

    • DataStax Astra DB

    • DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 5.1 and 6.8 databases

    • Open source Apache Cassandra® 2.1 and later databases

  • The workflow engine manages the driver-specific settings, as well as supports authentication and SSL encryption.

  • Conversion: The engine handles data type conversions, e.g. boolean, number, date conversions from anything (typically, strings or raw bytes as emitted by a connector) to appropriate internal representations (typically, Java Temporal or Number objects). It also handles NULL and UNSET values.

  • Mapping: The engine analyzes metadata gathered from the driver and infers the appropriate INSERT or SELECT prepared statement, then checks this information against user-supplied information about the data source, to infer the bound variables to use.

  • Monitoring: The engine reports metrics about all its internal components, mainly the connector and the bulk executor.

  • Error Handling: The engine handles errors from both connectors and the bulk executor, and reports read, parse, and write failures. These are redirected to a configurable "bad file" that contains sources that could not be loaded.

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