Ontop

# Dremio

Supported since 4.1.0.

Through the Dremio (opens new window) connector, Ontop is able to construct VKGs on Dremio databases. Ontop can connect to normal Dremio instances, as well as Dremio Cloud databases.

# Limitations & Exceptions

WARNING

Dremio does not provide information about integrity constraints. Make sure to provide this information in order to avoid very inefficient queries. We recommend using lenses for this purpose.

  • The position argument for the flatten lens cannot be used with Dremio.
  • When using a Dremio version below 21.0.0, some larger queries that employ UNIONs may fail. This can be solved by adding ontop.maxNbChildrenLiftingDBFS=0 to the properties

# Database Connection

The following shows the content of a sample .properties file that can be used to connect Ontop to Dremio for each supported JDBC:

  • com.dremio.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.url = jdbc:dremio:direct=localhost:31010
jdbc.user = user
jdbc.password = password
jdbc.driver = com.dremio.jdbc.Driver
  • org.apache.arrow.driver.jdbc.ArrowFlightJdbcDriver
jdbc.url = jdbc:arrow-flight-sql://localhost:32010
jdbc.user = dremio
jdbc.password = password
jdbc.driver = org.apache.arrow.driver.jdbc.ArrowFlightJdbcDriver

# Nested Type Support

Ontop implements explicit compatibility with the Dremio array type LIST which can be used with the flatten lens. However, it cannot infer the type of the flattened result column.

To use a flatten lens on a JSON-encoded array stored in the database, it first has to be converted to a LIST.

WARNING

The position argument for flatten lenses cannot be used with Dremio.

# Struct Access

Individual struct objects can be accessed by SQL expressions in the dialect's default way:

SELECT my_struct['my_attribute'] FROM ...

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