VaultSpeed reads source metadata from popular relational database systems like Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Apache Hive, Spark and several others. But what if you want to read metadata straight from your SAP instance, Google spreadsheet, or from a CRM system like Salesforce or HubSpot?
VaultSpeed’s Agent Extensions allows you to read metadata from these or any other source that support JDBC or Kafka.
- JDBC: Connect to a source using any JDBC Driver. All you need to do is get the right driver and add it to our agent.
- Kafka: connect to and directly read metadata from Confluent Kafka. Use Agent Extensions in combination with Spark Streaming, which will load the Kafka topics into your Data Vault.
Once metadata has been captured, you can start modeling sources and design Data Vaults in the same way as for any other source. Popular third-party vendors selling JDBC drivers for thousands of platforms are CDATA, Magnitude or Progress.
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