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# Exasol
Exasol is the in-memory database built for analytics.
## Sync overview
### Output schema
Each Airbyte Stream becomes an Exasol table and each Airbyte Field becomes an Exasol column. Each Exasol table created by Airbyte will contain 3 columns:
- `_AIRBYTE_AB_ID`: a uuid assigned by Airbyte to each event that is processed. The column type in Exasol is `VARCHAR(64)`.
- `_AIRBYTE_DATA`: a json blob representing with the event data. The column type in Exasol is `VARCHAR(2000000)`.
- `_AIRBYTE_EMITTED_AT`: a timestamp representing when the event was pulled from the data source. The column type in Exasol is `TIMESTAMP`.
### Features
The Exasol destination supports the following features:
| Feature | Supported? (Yes/No) | Notes |
| :----------------------------- | :------------------ | :---- |
| Full Refresh Sync | Yes | |
| Incremental - Append Sync | Yes | |
| Incremental - Append + Deduped | No | |
| Normalization | No | |
| Namespaces | Yes | |
| SSL connection | Yes | TLS |
| SSH Tunnel Support | No | |
### Limitations
#### Maximum data size two million characters
Exasol does not have a special data type for storing data of arbitrary length or JSON. That's why this connector uses type `VARCHAR(2000000)` for storing Airbyte data.
## Getting started
### Requirements
To use the Exasol destination, you'll need Exasol database version 7.1 or above.
#### Network Access
Make sure your Exasol database can be accessed by Airbyte. If your database is within a VPC, you may need to allow access from the IP you're using to expose Airbyte.
#### **Permissions**
As Airbyte namespaces allow to store data into different schemas, there are different scenarios requiring different permissions assigned to the user account. The following table describes 4 scenarios regarding the login user and the destination user.
| Login user | Destination user | Required permissions | Comment |
| :----------- | :----------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------ | :------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| DBA User | Any user | - | |
| Regular user | Same user as login | Create, drop and write table, create session | |
| Regular user | Any existing user | Create, drop and write ANY table, create session | Grants can be provided on a system level by DBA or by target user directly |
| Regular user | Not existing user | Create, drop and write ANY table, create user, create session | Grants should be provided on a system level by DBA |
We highly recommend creating an Airbyte-specific user for this purpose.
### Setup guide
You should now have all the requirements needed to configure Exasol as a destination in the UI. You'll need the following information to configure the Exasol destination:
- Host
- Port
- Fingerprint of the Exasol server's TLS certificate (if the database uses a self-signed certificate)
- Username
- Password
## Changelog
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| Version | Date | Pull Request | Subject |
| :------ | :--------- | :------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------- |
| 0.1.1 | 2023-02-21 | [xxx](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/xxx) | Fix the build |
| 0.1.0 | 2023-01-?? | [21200](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/21200) | Initial version of the Exasol destination |
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