Automated Continuous Amazon Athena Replication to IBM DB2

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Amazon Athena data into your IBM DB2 instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Getting Started

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Configure IBM DB2 as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Amazon Athena data to IBM DB2. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection. 👁 Add a new connection.
   
2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the IBM DB2 connector. 👁 Configure a Destination connection to IBM DB2.
   
3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. Sync requires the db2jcc.jar driver to connect to your DB2 database. If you have not done so already, make sure to download the native DB2 JDBC driver from DB2 JDBC Driver Versions and Downloads web page.
4. Copy the JDBC driver into the lib directory.
   • Microsoft Windows: C:\Program Files\CData\CData Sync\lib
   • UNIX or Mac OS X: ~/CData/CData Sync/lib
5. To connect to IBM DB2, set the following connection properties:
   • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the IBM DB2 connection.
   • Server: Enter either the host name or the IP address of the server that hosts your IBM DB2 instance.
   • Port: Enter the port number of the server that hosts your instance of IBM DB2. The default port value is 50000.
   • Database: Set this to the database you want to read from and write to.
   • User: Set this to the database user.
   • Password: Set this to the user's password.
👁 Enter the connection details.

6. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to IBM DB2 and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

👁 Add a label.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Amazon Athena data into IBM DB2 and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Amazon Athena Connection

You can configure a connection to Amazon Athena from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Amazon Athena account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (Amazon Athena).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Authenticating to Amazon Athena

   To authorize Amazon Athena requests, provide the credentials for an administrator account or for an IAM user with custom permissions: Set to the access key Id. Set to the secret access key.

   Note: Though you can connect as the AWS account administrator, it is recommended to use IAM user credentials to access AWS services.

   Obtaining the Access Key

   To obtain the credentials for an IAM user, follow the steps below:

   1. Sign into the IAM console.
   2. In the navigation pane, select Users.
   3. To create or manage the access keys for a user, select the user and then select the Security Credentials tab.

   To obtain the credentials for your AWS root account, follow the steps below:

   1. Sign into the AWS Management console with the credentials for your root account.
   2. Select your account name or number and select My Security Credentials in the menu that is displayed.
   3. Click Continue to Security Credentials and expand the Access Keys section to manage or create root account access keys.

   Authenticating from an EC2 Instance

   If you are using the CData Data Provider for Amazon Athena 2018 from an EC2 Instance and have an IAM Role assigned to the instance, you can use the IAM Role to authenticate. To do so, set to true and leave and empty. The CData Data Provider for Amazon Athena 2018 will automatically obtain your IAM Role credentials and authenticate with them.

   Authenticating as an AWS Role

   In many situations it may be preferable to use an IAM role for authentication instead of the direct security credentials of an AWS root user. An AWS role may be used instead by specifying the . This will cause the CData Data Provider for Amazon Athena 2018 to attempt to retrieve credentials for the specified role. If you are connecting to AWS (instead of already being connected such as on an EC2 instance), you must additionally specify the and of an IAM user to assume the role for. Roles may not be used when specifying the and of an AWS root user.

   Authenticating with MFA

   For users and roles that require Multi-factor Authentication, specify the and connection properties. This will cause the CData Data Provider for Amazon Athena 2018 to submit the MFA credentials in a request to retrieve temporary authentication credentials. Note that the duration of the temporary credentials may be controlled via the (default 3600 seconds).

   Connecting to Amazon Athena

   In addition to the and properties, specify , and . Set to the region where your Amazon Athena data is hosted. Set to a folder in S3 where you would like to store the results of queries.

   If is not set in the connection, the data provider connects to the default database set in Amazon Athena.

   👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
   
4. Click Connect to Amazon Athena to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save & Test to save the changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

👁 Select Source and Destination connections for the replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of Amazon Athena tables you wish to replicate into IBM DB2, and click Add Tasks again.

👁 Choose entire tables to replicate (Salesforce is shown).

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication with the help of SQL queries. 👁 Configure a replication Transform.

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at specified intervals, ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

👁 Schedule your job to run automatically.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Amazon Athena data to IBM DB2.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Amazon Athena table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

👁 Run the job.

Free Trial & More Information

Now that you have seen how to replicate Amazon Athena data into IBM DB2, visit our CData Sync page to explore more about CData Sync and download a free 30-day trial. Start consolidating your enterprise data today!

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