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title: Storage Services
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slug: /connectors/storage
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# Storage Services
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This is the supported list of connectors for Storage Services:
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{% partial file="/v1.3/connectors/storage/connectors-list.md" /%}
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2023-12-13 14:03:08 +01:00
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If you have a request for a new connector, don't hesitate to reach out in [Slack](https://slack.open-metadata.org/) or
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open a [feature request](https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/issues/new/choose) in our GitHub repo.
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## Configuring the Ingestion
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In any other connector, extracting metadata happens automatically. We have different ways to understand the information
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in the sources and send that to OpenMetadata. However, what happens with generic sources such as S3 buckets, or ADLS containers?
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In these systems we can have different types of information:
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- Unstructured data, such as images or videos,
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- Structured data in single and independent files (which can also be ingested with the [Data Lake connector](/connectors/database/datalake))
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- Structured data in partitioned files, e.g., `my_table/year=2022/...parquet`, `my_table/year=2023/...parquet`, etc.
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Then the question is, how do we know which data in each Container is relevant and which structure does it follow? In order to
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optimize ingestion costs and make sure we are only bringing in useful metadata, the Storage Services ingestion process
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follow this approach:
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1. We list the top-level containers (e.g., S3 buckets), and bring generic insights, such as size and number of objects.
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2. If there is an `openmetadata.json` manifest file present in the bucket root, we will ingest the informed paths
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as children of the top-level container. Let's see how that works.
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{% note %}
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Note that the current implementation brings each entry in the `openmetadata.json` as a child container of the
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top-level container. Even if your data path is `s3://bucket/my/deep/table`, we will bring `bucket` as the top-level
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container and `my/deep/table` as its child.
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We are flattening this structure to simplify the navigation.
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{% /note %}
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{% partial file="/v1.3/connectors/storage/manifest.md" /%}
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