OpenMetadata/docs/install/metadata-ingestion/connectors/database-services/vertica.md

description
This guide will help install Vertica connector and run manually

Vertica

{% hint style="info" %} Prerequisites

OpenMetadata is built using Java, DropWizard, Jetty, and MySQL.

1. Python 3.7 or above {% endhint %}

Install from PyPI

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pip install 'openmetadata-ingestion[vertica]'

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Run Manually

metadata ingest -c ./examples/workflows/vertica.json

Configurationvertica.json

{% code title="vertica.json" %}

{
  "source": {
    "type": "vertica",
    "config": {
      "username": "openmetadata_user",
      "password": "openmetadata_password",
      "database": "openmetadata_db",
      "service_name": "local_vertica",
      "filter_pattern": {
        "excludes": []
      }
    }
  },
 ...

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1. **username **- pass the Vertica username.
2. password - password for the username.
3. service_name - Service Name for this Vertica cluster. If you added Vertica cluster through OpenMetadata UI, make sure the service name matches the same.
4. filter_pattern - It contains includes, excludes options to choose which pattern of datasets you want to ingest into OpenMetadata

Publish to OpenMetadata

Below is the configuration to publish MySQL data into the OpenMetadata service.

Add optionally pii processor and metadata-rest sink along with metadata-server config

{% code title="vertica.json" %}

{
  "source": {
    "type": "vertica",
    "config": {
      "username": "openmetadata_user",
      "password": "openmetadata_password",
      "database": "openmetadata_db",
      "service_name": "local_vertica",
      "filter_pattern": {
        "excludes": []
      }
    }
  },
  "sink": {
    "type": "metadata-rest",
    "config": {}
  },
  "metadata_server": {
    "type": "metadata-server",
    "config": {
      "api_endpoint": "http://localhost:8585/api",
      "auth_provider_type": "no-auth"
    }
  },
  "cron": {
    "minute": "*/5",
    "hour": null,
    "day": null,
    "month": null,
    "day_of_week": null
  }
}

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