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Glue Data Connector

The Glue Data Connector enables federated SQL querying on tables in an AWS Glue Data Catalog.

datasets:
  - from: glue:tpch.lineitem
    name: lineitem
    params:
      glue_region: us-east-1
      glue_key: ${env:SPICE_AWS_KEY}
      glue_secret: ${env:SPICE_AWS_SECRET}

Configuration​

from​

Specify a table using the format, glue:<database>.<table> by replacing <database> with the name of the Glue database and <table>with the name of the table inside of the <database>.

name​

The dataset name. This will be used as the table name within Spice.

Example:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM lineitem;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 6001215  |
+----------+

params​

The following parameters are supported for configuring the connection to the Glue Data Catalog:

Parameter NameDefinition
glue_regionThe AWS region for the Glue Data Catalog. E.g. us-west-2.
glue_keyAccess key (e.g. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID for AWS)
glue_secretSecret key (e.g. AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for AWS)
glue_session_tokenSession token (e.g. AWS_SESSION_TOKEN for AWS) for temporary credentials

Authentication​

The minimum IAM policy for Glue access is:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "glue:GetDatabase",
                "glue:GetDatabases",
                "glue:GetTable",
                "glue:GetTables"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Limitations​

Data Source/Data Format Restrictions

This catalog connector is limited to tables that use the S3 data source. Kinesis and Kafka data sources are not currently supported. Additionally, this catalog connector is currently limited to Iceberg tables, tables with parquet or CSV data format only.

Performance Considerations

When using the Glue Data connector without acceleration, data is loaded into memory during query execution. Ensure sufficient memory is available, including overhead for queries and the runtime, especially with concurrent queries.

Memory limitations can be mitigated by storing acceleration data on disk, which is supported by duckdb and sqlite accelerators by specifying mode: file.

Each query retrieves data from the S3 source, which might result in significant network requests and bandwidth consumption. This can affect network performance and incur costs related to data transfer from S3.

Cookbook​