Connect to Adobe Target Data as an External Source in Dremio

The CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Target implements JDBC Standards and allows various applications, including Dremio, to work with live Adobe Target data. Dremio is a data lakehouse platform designed to empower self-service, interactive analytics on the data lake. With the CData JDBC driver, you can include live Adobe Target data as a part of your enterprise data lake. This article describes how to connect to Adobe Target data from Dremio as an External Source.

The CData JDBC Driver enables high-speed access to live Adobe Target data in Dremio. Once you install the driver, authenticate with Adobe Target and gain immediate access to Adobe Target data within your data lake. By surfacing Adobe Target data using native data types and handling complex filters, aggregations, & other operations automatically, the CData JDBC Driver grants seamless access to Adobe Target data.

Prerequisites

This article assumes you are utilizing Docker to run Dremio. You can create a Docker container with the Dremio service using a command similar to the follow:

docker run -d --name dremio -p 9047:9047 -p 31010:31010 dremio/dremio-oss

Where dremio is the name of the container, 9047 is the container's port for the Dremio web interface and 31010 is the port that maps to the Dremio query service. dremio/dremio-oss specifies the image to use.

Build the ARP Connector

To use the CData JDBC Driver in Dremio, you need to build an Advanced Relation Pushdown (ARP) Connector. You can view the source code for the Connector on GitHub or download the ZIP file (GitHub.com) directly. Once you copy or extract the files, run the following command from the root directory of the connector (the directory containing the pom.xml file) to build the connector.

mvn clean install

NOTE: The CData ARP Connectors are build to be compiled with Java 11. Be sure to install Java 11 and use the correct version. You can update your Java version using a command similar to the following:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Once the JAR file for the connector is built (in the target directory), you are ready to copy the ARP connector and JDBC Driver to your Dremio instance.

Installing the Connector and JDBC Driver

Install the ARP Connector to %DREMIO_HOME%/jars/ and the JDBC Driver for Adobe Target to %DREMIO_HOME%/jars/3rdparty. You can use commands similar to the following:

ARP Connector

docker cp PATH\TO\dremio-adobetarget-plugin-{DREMIO_VERSION}.jar dremio_image_name:/opt/dremio/jars/

JDBC Driver for Adobe Target

docker cp PATH\TO\cdata.jdbc.adobetarget.jar dremio_image_name:/opt/dremio/jars/3rdparty/

Connecting to Adobe Target

Adobe Target will now appear as an External Source option in Dremio. The ARP Connector built uses a JDBC URL to connect to Adobe Target data. The JDBC Driver has a built-in connection string designer that you can use (see below).

Built-in Connection String Designer

For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Adobe Target JDBC Driver. Double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command line.

java -jar cdata.jdbc.adobetarget.jar

Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

To connect to Adobe Target, you must provide the Tenant property along with OAuth connection properties mentioned below. Note that while other connection properties can influence processing behavior, they do not affect the ability to connect.

To determine your Tenant name:

1. Log in to Adobe Experience. The URL will look similar to: "https://experience.adobe.com/#/@mycompanyname/preferences/general-section".
2. Extract the value after the "/#/@". In this example, it is "mycompanyname".
3. Set the Tenant connection property to that value.

User Accounts (OAuth)

You must set AuthScheme to OAuthClient for all user account flows.

Note: Adobe authentication via OAuth requires updating your token every two weeks.

All Applications

Obtaining the OAuth Access Token

Set the following properties to connect:

• InitiateOAuth: Set to GETANDREFRESH to automatically perform the OAuth exchange and refresh the OAuthAccessToken as needed.
• OAuthClientId : Set to the client Id assigned when you registered your app.
• OAuthClientSecret : Set to the client secret assigned when you registered your app.
• CallbackURL : Set to the redirect URI defined when you registered your app. For example: https://localhost:3333

With these settings, the provider obtains an access token from Adobe Target, which it uses to request data. The OAuth values are stored in the location specified by OAuthSettingsLocation, ensuring they persist across connections.

NOTE: To use the JDBC Driver in Dremio, you will need a license (full or trial) and a Runtime Key (RTK). For more information on obtaining this license (or a trial), contact our sales team.

Add the Runtime Key (RTK) to the JDBC URL. You will end up with a JDBC URL similar to the following:

jdbc:adobetarget:RTK=5246...;Tenant=mycompanyname;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH

Access Adobe Target as an External Source

To add Adobe Target as an External Source, click to add a new source and select AdobeTarget. Copy the JDBC URL and paste it into the New AdobeTarget Source wizard.

Save the connection and you are ready to query live Adobe Target data in Dremio, easily incorporating Adobe Target data into your data lake.

More Information & Free Trial

Using the CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Target in Dremio, you can incorporate live Adobe Target data into your data lake. Check out our CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Target page for more information about connecting to Adobe Target. Download a free, 30 day trial of the CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Target and get started today.