sql_insert

Type:

Available in: Cloud, Self-Managed

Inserts a row into an SQL database for each message.

Introduced in version 3.59.0.

  • Common

  • Advanced

# Common configuration fields, showing default values
output:
  label: ""
  sql_insert:
    driver: "" # No default (required)
    dsn: "clickhouse://username:password@host1:9000,host2:9000/database?dial_timeout=200ms&max_execution_time=60" # No default (required)
    table: foo # No default (required)
    columns: [] # No default (required)
    args_mapping: root = [ this.cat.meow, this.doc.woofs[0] ] # No default (required)
    max_in_flight: 64
    batching:
      count: 0
      byte_size: 0
      period: ""
      check: ""
# All configuration fields, showing default values
output:
  label: ""
  sql_insert:
    driver: "" # No default (required)
    dsn: "clickhouse://username:password@host1:9000,host2:9000/database?dial_timeout=200ms&max_execution_time=60" # No default (required)
    table: foo # No default (required)
    columns: [] # No default (required)
    args_mapping: root = [ this.cat.meow, this.doc.woofs[0] ] # No default (required)
    prefix: "" # No default (optional)
    suffix: ON CONFLICT (name) DO NOTHING # No default (optional)
    max_in_flight: 64
    init_files: [] # No default (optional)
    init_statement: | # No default (optional)
      CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS some_table (
        foo varchar(50) not null,
        bar integer,
        baz varchar(50),
        primary key (foo)
      ) WITHOUT ROWID;
    conn_max_idle_time: "" # No default (optional)
    conn_max_life_time: "" # No default (optional)
    conn_max_idle: 2
    conn_max_open: 0 # No default (optional)
    batching:
      count: 0
      byte_size: 0
      period: ""
      check: ""
      processors: [] # No default (optional)

Examples

Table Insert (MySQL)

Here we insert rows into a database by populating the columns id, name and topic with values extracted from messages and metadata:

output:
  sql_insert:
    driver: mysql
    dsn: foouser:foopassword@tcp(localhost:3306)/foodb
    table: footable
    columns: [ id, name, topic ]
    args_mapping: |
      root = [
        this.user.id,
        this.user.name,
        meta("kafka_topic"),
      ]

Fields

args_mapping

A Bloblang mapping which should evaluate to an array of values matching in size to the number of columns specified.

Type: string

# Examples:
args_mapping: root = [ this.cat.meow, this.doc.woofs[0] ]
args_mapping: root = [ meta("user.id") ]

batching

Allows you to configure a batching policy.

Type: object

# Examples:
batching:
  byte_size: 5000
  count: 0
  period: 1s
batching:
  count: 10
  period: 1s
batching:
  check: this.contains("END BATCH")
  count: 0
  period: 1m

batching.byte_size

An amount of bytes at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables size based batching.

Type: int

Default: 0

batching.check

A Bloblang query that should return a boolean value indicating whether a message should end a batch.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
check: this.type == "end_of_transaction"

batching.count

A number of messages at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables count based batching.

Type: int

Default: 0

batching.period

A period in which an incomplete batch should be flushed regardless of its size.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
period: 1s
period: 1m
period: 500ms

batching.processors[]

A list of processors to apply to a batch as it is flushed. This allows you to aggregate and archive the batch however you see fit. Please note that all resulting messages are flushed as a single batch, therefore splitting the batch into smaller batches using these processors is a no-op.

Type: processor

# Examples:
processors:
  - archive:
      format: concatenate

  - archive:
      format: lines

  - archive:
      format: json_array

columns[]

A list of columns to insert.

Type: array

# Examples:
columns:
  - foo
  - bar
  - baz

conn_max_idle

An optional maximum number of connections in the idle connection pool. If conn_max_open is greater than 0 but less than the new conn_max_idle, then the new conn_max_idle will be reduced to match the conn_max_open limit. If value ⇐ 0, no idle connections are retained. The default max idle connections is currently 2. This may change in a future release.

Type: int

Default: 2

conn_max_idle_time

An optional maximum amount of time a connection may be idle. Expired connections may be closed lazily before reuse. If value ⇐ 0, connections are not closed due to a connections idle time.

Type: string

conn_max_life_time

An optional maximum amount of time a connection may be reused. Expired connections may be closed lazily before reuse. If value ⇐ 0, connections are not closed due to a connections age.

Type: string

conn_max_open

An optional maximum number of open connections to the database. If conn_max_idle is greater than 0 and the new conn_max_open is less than conn_max_idle, then conn_max_idle will be reduced to match the new conn_max_open limit. If value ⇐ 0, then there is no limit on the number of open connections. The default is 0 (unlimited).

Type: int

driver

A database driver to use.

Type: string

Options: mysql, postgres, clickhouse, mssql, sqlite, oracle, snowflake, trino, gocosmos, spanner

dsn

A Data Source Name to identify the target database.

Type: string

# Examples:
dsn: clickhouse://username:password@host1:9000,host2:9000/database?dial_timeout=200ms&max_execution_time=60
dsn: foouser:foopassword@tcp(localhost:3306)/foodb
dsn: postgres://foouser:foopass@localhost:5432/foodb?sslmode=disable
dsn: oracle://foouser:foopass@localhost:1521/service_name

init_files[]

An optional list of file paths containing SQL statements to execute immediately upon the first connection to the target database. This is a useful way to initialise tables before processing data. Glob patterns are supported, including super globs (double star).

Care should be taken to ensure that the statements are idempotent, and therefore would not cause issues when run multiple times after service restarts. If both init_statement and init_files are specified the init_statement is executed after the init_files.

If a statement fails for any reason a warning log will be emitted but the operation of this component will not be stopped.

Requires version 4.10.0 or later.

Type: array

# Examples:
init_files:
  - ./init/*.sql

  - ./foo.sql
  - ./bar.sql

init_statement

An optional SQL statement to execute immediately upon the first connection to the target database. This is a useful way to initialise tables before processing data. Care should be taken to ensure that the statement is idempotent, and therefore would not cause issues when run multiple times after service restarts.

If both init_statement and init_files are specified the init_statement is executed after the init_files.

If the statement fails for any reason a warning log will be emitted but the operation of this component will not be stopped.

Requires version 4.10.0 or later.

Type: string

# Examples:
init_statement: |-

  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS some_table (
    foo varchar(50) not null,
    bar integer,
    baz varchar(50),
    primary key (foo)
  ) WITHOUT ROWID;

max_in_flight

The maximum number of inserts to run in parallel.

Type: int

Default: 64

options[]

A list of keyword options to add before the INTO clause of the query.

Type: array

# Examples:
options:
  - DELAYED
  - IGNORE

prefix

An optional prefix to prepend to the insert query (before INSERT).

Type: string

suffix

An optional suffix to append to the insert query.

Type: string

# Examples:
suffix: ON CONFLICT (name) DO NOTHING

table

The table to insert to.

Type: string

# Examples:
table: foo