until the number of retries reaches the configured limit. If all worker tasks succeed, it publishes the reported segments at once and finalizes ingestion.
The detailed behavior of the Parallel task is different depending on the [`partitionsSpec`](#partitionsspec).
See each `partitionsSpec` for more details.
To use this task, the [`inputSource`](#input-sources) in the `ioConfig` should be _splittable_ and `maxNumConcurrentSubTasks` should be set to larger than 1 in the `tuningConfig`.
Otherwise, this task runs sequentially; the `index_paralllel` task reads each input file one by one and creates segments by itself.
The supported splittable input formats for now are:
- [`s3`](#s3-input-source) reads data from AWS S3 storage.
- [`gs`](#google-cloud-storage-input-source) reads data from Google Cloud Storage.
|type|The task type, this should always be `index_parallel`.|yes|
|id|The task ID. If this is not explicitly specified, Druid generates the task ID using task type, data source name, interval, and date-time stamp. |no|
|spec|The ingestion spec including the data schema, IOConfig, and TuningConfig. See below for more details. |yes|
|context|Context containing various task configuration parameters. See below for more details.|no|
|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version, effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. This will only work if the existing segment set has extendable-type shardSpecs.|false|no|
|maxRowsInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally user does not need to set this, but depending on the nature of data, if rows are short in terms of bytes, user may not want to store a million rows in memory and this value should be set.|1000000|no|
|maxBytesInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally this is computed internally and user does not need to set it. This value represents number of bytes to aggregate in heap memory before persisting. This is based on a rough estimate of memory usage and not actual usage. The maximum heap memory usage for indexing is maxBytesInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists)|1/6 of max JVM memory|no|
|maxTotalRows|Deprecated. Use `partitionsSpec` instead. Total number of rows in segments waiting for being pushed. Used in determining when intermediate pushing should occur.|20000000|no|
|numShards|Deprecated. Use `partitionsSpec` instead. Directly specify the number of shards to create when using a `hashed``partitionsSpec`. If this is specified and `intervals` is specified in the `granularitySpec`, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data. `numShards` cannot be specified if `maxRowsPerSegment` is set.|null|no|
|splitHintSpec|Used to give a hint to control the amount of data that each first phase task reads. This hint could be ignored depending on the implementation of the input source. See [SplitHintSpec](#splithintspec) for more details.|null|`maxSize`|
|partitionsSpec|Defines how to partition data in each timeChunk, see [PartitionsSpec](#partitionsspec)|`dynamic` if `forceGuaranteedRollup` = false, `hashed` or `single_dim` if `forceGuaranteedRollup` = true|no|
|indexSpec|Defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time, see [IndexSpec](index.md#indexspec)|null|no|
|indexSpecForIntermediatePersists|Defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time for intermediate persisted temporary segments. this can be used to disable dimension/metric compression on intermediate segments to reduce memory required for final merging. however, disabling compression on intermediate segments might increase page cache use while they are used before getting merged into final segment published, see [IndexSpec](index.md#indexspec) for possible values.|same as indexSpec|no|
|maxPendingPersists|Maximum number of persists that can be pending but not started. If this limit would be exceeded by a new intermediate persist, ingestion will block until the currently-running persist finishes. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).|0 (meaning one persist can be running concurrently with ingestion, and none can be queued up)|no|
|forceGuaranteedRollup|Forces guaranteeing the [perfect rollup](../ingestion/index.md#rollup). The perfect rollup optimizes the total size of generated segments and querying time while indexing time will be increased. If this is set to true, `intervals` in `granularitySpec` must be set and `hashed` or `single_dim` must be used for `partitionsSpec`. This flag cannot be used with `appendToExisting` of IOConfig. For more details, see the below __Segment pushing modes__ section.|false|no|
|reportParseExceptions|If true, exceptions encountered during parsing will be thrown and will halt ingestion; if false, unparseable rows and fields will be skipped.|false|no|
|pushTimeout|Milliseconds to wait for pushing segments. It must be >= 0, where 0 means to wait forever.|0|no|
|segmentWriteOutMediumFactory|Segment write-out medium to use when creating segments. See [SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory).|Not specified, the value from `druid.peon.defaultSegmentWriteOutMediumFactory.type` is used|no|
|maxNumConcurrentSubTasks|Maximum number of worker tasks which can be run in parallel at the same time. The supervisor task would spawn worker tasks up to `maxNumConcurrentSubTasks` regardless of the current available task slots. If this value is set to 1, the supervisor task processes data ingestion on its own instead of spawning worker tasks. If this value is set to too large, too many worker tasks can be created which might block other ingestion. Check [Capacity Planning](#capacity-planning) for more details.|1|no|
|maxNumSegmentsToMerge|Max limit for the number of segments that a single task can merge at the same time in the second phase. Used only `forceGuaranteedRollup` is set.|100|no|
`MaxSizeSplitHintSpec` is respected by all splittable input sources except for the HTTP input source.
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|This should always be `maxSize`.|none|yes|
|maxSplitSize|Maximum number of bytes of input files to process in a single task. If a single file is larger than this number, it will be processed by itself in a single task (Files are never split across tasks yet).|500MB|no|
|maxInputSegmentBytesPerTask|Maximum number of bytes of input segments to process in a single task. If a single segment is larger than this number, it will be processed by itself in a single task (input segments are never split across tasks).|500MB|no|
| `dynamic` | Fastest | Partitioning based on number of rows in segment. | Best-effort rollup | N/A |
| `hashed` | Moderate | Partitioning based on the hash value of partition dimensions. This partitioning may reduce your datasource size and query latency by improving data locality. See [Partitioning](./index.md#partitioning) for more details. | Perfect rollup | N/A |
| `single_dim` | Slowest | Range partitioning based on the value of the partition dimension. Segment sizes may be skewed depending on the partition key distribution. This may reduce your datasource size and query latency by improving data locality. See [Partitioning](./index.md#partitioning) for more details. | Perfect rollup | The broker can use the partition information to prune segments early to speed up queries. Since the broker knows the range of `partitionDimension` values in each segment, given a query including a filter on the `partitionDimension`, the broker can pick up only the segments holding the rows satisfying the filter on `partitionDimension` for query processing. |
The recommended use case for each partitionsSpec is:
- If your data has a uniformly distributed column which is frequently used in your queries,
consider using `single_dim` partitionsSpec to maximize the performance of most of your queries.
- If your data doesn't a uniformly distributed column, but is expected to have a [high rollup ratio](./index.md#maximizing-rollup-ratio)
when you roll up with some dimensions, consider using `hashed` partitionsSpec.
It could reduce the size of datasource and query latency by improving data locality.
- If the above two scenarios are not the case or you don't need to roll up your datasource,
consider using `dynamic` partitionsSpec.
#### Dynamic partitioning
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|This should always be `dynamic`|none|yes|
|maxRowsPerSegment|Used in sharding. Determines how many rows are in each segment.|5000000|no|
|maxTotalRows|Total number of rows across all segments waiting for being pushed. Used in determining when intermediate segment push should occur.|20000000|no|
With the Dynamic partitioning, the parallel index task runs in a single phase:
it will spawn multiple worker tasks (type `single_phase_sub_task`), each of which creates segments.
How the worker task creates segments is:
- The task creates a new segment whenever the number of rows in the current segment exceeds
`maxRowsPerSegment`.
- Once the total number of rows in all segments across all time chunks reaches to `maxTotalRows`,
the task pushes all segments created so far to the deep storage and creates new ones.
|numShards|Directly specify the number of shards to create. If this is specified and `intervals` is specified in the `granularitySpec`, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data.|null|yes|
|targetRowsPerSegment|Target number of rows to include in a partition, should be a number that targets segments of 500MB\~1GB.|none|either this or `maxRowsPerSegment`|
|assumeGrouped|Assume that input data has already been grouped on time and dimensions. Ingestion will run faster, but may choose sub-optimal partitions if this assumption is violated.|false|no|
the assigned split and builds a histogram for `partitionDimension`.
The Parallel task collects those histograms from worker tasks and finds
the best range partitioning based on `partitionDimension` to evenly
distribute rows across partitions. Note that either `targetRowsPerSegment`
or `maxRowsPerSegment` will be used to find the best partitioning.
- In the `partial segment generation` phase, the Parallel task spawns new worker tasks (type `partial_range_index_generate`)
to create partitioned data. Each worker task reads a split created as in the previous phase,
partitions rows by the time chunk from the `segmentGranularity` (primary partition key) in the `granularitySpec`
and then by the range partitioning found in the previous phase.
The partitioned data is stored in local storage of
the [middleManager](../design/middlemanager.md) or the [indexer](../design/indexer.md).
- In the `partial segment merge` phase, the parallel index task spawns a new set of worker tasks (type `partial_index_generic_merge`) to merge the partitioned
data created in the previous phase. Here, the partitioned data is shuffled based on
the time chunk and the value of `partitionDimension`; each worker task reads the segments
falling in the same partition of the same range from multiple MiddleManager/Indexer processes and merges
them to create the final segments. Finally, they push the final segments to the deep storage.
> Because the task with single-dimension range partitioning makes two passes over the input
> in `partial dimension distribution` and `partial segment generation` phases,
> the task may fail if the input changes in between the two passes.
Returns the task attempt history of the worker task spec of the given id, or HTTP 404 Not Found error if the supervisor task is running in the sequential mode.
|id|The task ID. If this is not explicitly specified, Druid generates the task ID using task type, data source name, interval, and date-time stamp. |no|
|spec|The ingestion spec including the data schema, IOConfig, and TuningConfig. See below for more details. |yes|
|context|Context containing various task configuration parameters. See below for more details.|no|
|appendToExisting|Creates segments as additional shards of the latest version, effectively appending to the segment set instead of replacing it. This will only work if the existing segment set has extendable-type shardSpecs.|false|no|
|maxRowsInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally user does not need to set this, but depending on the nature of data, if rows are short in terms of bytes, user may not want to store a million rows in memory and this value should be set.|1000000|no|
|maxBytesInMemory|Used in determining when intermediate persists to disk should occur. Normally this is computed internally and user does not need to set it. This value represents number of bytes to aggregate in heap memory before persisting. This is based on a rough estimate of memory usage and not actual usage. The maximum heap memory usage for indexing is maxBytesInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists)|1/6 of max JVM memory|no|
|maxTotalRows|Deprecated. Use `partitionsSpec` instead. Total number of rows in segments waiting for being pushed. Used in determining when intermediate pushing should occur.|20000000|no|
|numShards|Deprecated. Use `partitionsSpec` instead. Directly specify the number of shards to create. If this is specified and `intervals` is specified in the `granularitySpec`, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data. `numShards` cannot be specified if `maxRowsPerSegment` is set.|null|no|
|partitionDimensions|Deprecated. Use `partitionsSpec` instead. The dimensions to partition on. Leave blank to select all dimensions. Only used with `forceGuaranteedRollup` = true, will be ignored otherwise.|null|no|
|partitionsSpec|Defines how to partition data in each timeChunk, see [PartitionsSpec](#partitionsspec)|`dynamic` if `forceGuaranteedRollup` = false, `hashed` if `forceGuaranteedRollup` = true|no|
|indexSpec|Defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time, see [IndexSpec](index.md#indexspec)|null|no|
|indexSpecForIntermediatePersists|Defines segment storage format options to be used at indexing time for intermediate persisted temporary segments. this can be used to disable dimension/metric compression on intermediate segments to reduce memory required for final merging. however, disabling compression on intermediate segments might increase page cache use while they are used before getting merged into final segment published, see [IndexSpec](index.md#indexspec) for possible values.|same as indexSpec|no|
|maxPendingPersists|Maximum number of persists that can be pending but not started. If this limit would be exceeded by a new intermediate persist, ingestion will block until the currently-running persist finishes. Maximum heap memory usage for indexing scales with maxRowsInMemory * (2 + maxPendingPersists).|0 (meaning one persist can be running concurrently with ingestion, and none can be queued up)|no|
|forceGuaranteedRollup|Forces guaranteeing the [perfect rollup](../ingestion/index.md#rollup). The perfect rollup optimizes the total size of generated segments and querying time while indexing time will be increased. If this is set to true, the index task will read the entire input data twice: one for finding the optimal number of partitions per time chunk and one for generating segments. Note that the result segments would be hash-partitioned. This flag cannot be used with `appendToExisting` of IOConfig. For more details, see the below __Segment pushing modes__ section.|false|no|
|reportParseExceptions|DEPRECATED. If true, exceptions encountered during parsing will be thrown and will halt ingestion; if false, unparseable rows and fields will be skipped. Setting `reportParseExceptions` to true will override existing configurations for `maxParseExceptions` and `maxSavedParseExceptions`, setting `maxParseExceptions` to 0 and limiting `maxSavedParseExceptions` to no more than 1.|false|no|
|segmentWriteOutMediumFactory|Segment write-out medium to use when creating segments. See [SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory).|Not specified, the value from `druid.peon.defaultSegmentWriteOutMediumFactory.type` is used|no|
|logParseExceptions|If true, log an error message when a parsing exception occurs, containing information about the row where the error occurred.|false|no|
|maxParseExceptions|The maximum number of parse exceptions that can occur before the task halts ingestion and fails. Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.|unlimited|no|
|maxSavedParseExceptions|When a parse exception occurs, Druid can keep track of the most recent parse exceptions. "maxSavedParseExceptions" limits how many exception instances will be saved. These saved exceptions will be made available after the task finishes in the [task completion report](tasks.md#task-reports). Overridden if `reportParseExceptions` is set.|0|no|
|numShards|Directly specify the number of shards to create. If this is specified and `intervals` is specified in the `granularitySpec`, the index task can skip the determine intervals/partitions pass through the data. `numShards` cannot be specified if `maxRowsPerSegment` is set.|null|no|
|type|String|See [Additional Peon Configuration: SegmentWriteOutMediumFactory](../configuration/index.md#segmentwriteoutmediumfactory) for explanation and available options.|yes|
> You need to include the [`druid-google-extensions`](../development/extensions-core/google.md) as an extension to use the Google Cloud Storage input source.
The Google Cloud Storage input source is to support reading objects directly
from Google Cloud Storage. Objects can be specified as list of Google
Cloud Storage URI strings. The Google Cloud Storage input source is splittable
|uris|JSON array of URIs where Google Cloud Storage objects to be ingested are located.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
|prefixes|JSON array of URI prefixes for the locations of Google Cloud Storage objects to be ingested.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
|objects|JSON array of Google Cloud Storage objects to be ingested.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
Google Cloud Storage object:
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|bucket|Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket|None|yes|
|uris|JSON array of URIs where Azure Blob objects to be ingested are located. Should be in form "azure://\<container>/\<path-to-file\>"|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
|prefixes|JSON array of URI prefixes for the locations of Azure Blob objects to be ingested. Should be in the form "azure://\<container>/\<prefix\>"|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
|objects|JSON array of Azure Blob objects to be ingested.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` or `objects` must be set|
Azure Blob object:
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|bucket|Name of the Azure Blob Storage container|None|yes|
|httpAuthenticationUsername|Username to use for authentication with specified URIs. Can be optionally used if the URIs specified in the spec require a Basic Authentication Header.|None|no|
|httpAuthenticationPassword|PasswordProvider to use with specified URIs. Can be optionally used if the URIs specified in the spec require a Basic Authentication Header.|None|no|
### Inline Input Source
The Inline input source can be used to read the data inlined in its own spec.
It can be used for demos or for quickly testing out parsing and schema.
Sample spec:
```json
...
"ioConfig": {
"type": "index_parallel",
"inputSource": {
"type": "inline",
"data": "0,values,formatted\n1,as,CSV"
},
"inputFormat": {
"type": "csv"
},
...
},
...
```
|property|description|required?|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|type|This should be "inline".|yes|
|data|Inlined data to ingest.|yes|
### Local Input Source
The Local input source is to support reading files directly from local storage,
and is mainly intended for proof-of-concept testing.
The Local input source is _splittable_ and can be used by the [Parallel task](#parallel-task),
|filter|A wildcard filter for files. See [here](http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/filefilter/WildcardFileFilter.html) for more information.|yes if `baseDir` is specified|
|baseDir|Directory to search recursively for files to be ingested. |At least one of `baseDir` or `files` should be specified|
|files|File paths to ingest. Some files can be ignored to avoid ingesting duplicate files if they are located under the specified `baseDir`. |At least one of `baseDir` or `files` should be specified|
The Druid input source is to support reading data directly from existing Druid segments,
potentially using a new schema and changing the name, dimensions, metrics, rollup, etc. of the segment.
The Druid input source is _splittable_ and can be used by the [Parallel task](#parallel-task).
This input source has a fixed input format for reading from Druid segments;
no `inputFormat` field needs to be specified in the ingestion spec when using this input source.
|property|description|required?|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|type|This should be "druid".|yes|
|dataSource|A String defining the Druid datasource to fetch rows from|yes|
|interval|A String representing an ISO-8601 interval, which defines the time range to fetch the data over.|yes|
|dimensions|A list of Strings containing the names of dimension columns to select from the Druid datasource. If the list is empty, no dimensions are returned. If null, all dimensions are returned. |no|
|metrics|The list of Strings containing the names of metric columns to select. If the list is empty, no metrics are returned. If null, all metrics are returned.|no|
|filter| See [Filters](../querying/filters.md). Only rows that match the filter, if specified, will be returned.|no|
A minimal example DruidInputSource spec is shown below:
```json
...
"ioConfig": {
"type": "index_parallel",
"inputSource": {
"type": "druid",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"interval": "2013-01-01/2013-01-02"
}
...
},
...
```
The spec above will read all existing dimension and metric columns from
the `wikipedia` datasource, including all rows with a timestamp (the `__time` column)
within the interval `2013-01-01/2013-01-02`.
A spec that applies a filter and reads a subset of the original datasource's columns is shown below.
```json
...
"ioConfig": {
"type": "index_parallel",
"inputSource": {
"type": "druid",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"interval": "2013-01-01/2013-01-02",
"dimensions": [
"page",
"user"
],
"metrics": [
"added"
],
"filter": {
"type": "selector",
"dimension": "page",
"value": "Druid"
}
}
...
},
...
```
This spec above will only return the `page`, `user` dimensions and `added` metric.
Only rows where `page` = `Druid` will be returned.
## Firehoses (Deprecated)
Firehoses are deprecated in 0.17.0. It's highly recommended to use the [Input source](#input-sources) instead.
This firehose provides caching and prefetching features. In the Simple task, a firehose can be read twice if intervals or
shardSpecs are not specified, and, in this case, caching can be useful. Prefetching is preferred when direct scan of objects is slow.
Note that prefetching or caching isn't that useful in the Parallel task.
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|This should be `static-s3`.|None|yes|
|uris|JSON array of URIs where s3 files to be ingested are located.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` must be set|
|prefixes|JSON array of URI prefixes for the locations of s3 files to be ingested.|None|`uris` or `prefixes` must be set|
|maxCacheCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the cache space in bytes. 0 means disabling cache. Cached files are not removed until the ingestion task completes.|1073741824|no|
|maxFetchCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the fetch space in bytes. 0 means disabling prefetch. Prefetched files are removed immediately once they are read.|1073741824|no|
|prefetchTriggerBytes|Threshold to trigger prefetching s3 objects.|maxFetchCapacityBytes / 2|no|
|fetchTimeout|Timeout for fetching an s3 object.|60000|no|
|maxFetchRetry|Maximum retry for fetching an s3 object.|3|no|
#### StaticGoogleBlobStoreFirehose
> You need to include the [`druid-google-extensions`](../development/extensions-core/google.md) as an extension to use the StaticGoogleBlobStoreFirehose.
This firehose ingests events, similar to the StaticS3Firehose, but from an Google Cloud Store.
As with the S3 blobstore, it is assumed to be gzipped if the extension ends in .gz
This firehose is _splittable_ and can be used by the [Parallel task](#parallel-task).
Since each split represents an object in this firehose, each worker task of `index_parallel` will read an object.
Sample spec:
```json
"firehose" : {
"type" : "static-google-blobstore",
"blobs": [
{
"bucket": "foo",
"path": "/path/to/your/file.json"
},
{
"bucket": "bar",
"path": "/another/path.json"
}
]
}
```
This firehose provides caching and prefetching features. In the Simple task, a firehose can be read twice if intervals or
shardSpecs are not specified, and, in this case, caching can be useful. Prefetching is preferred when direct scan of objects is slow.
Note that prefetching or caching isn't that useful in the Parallel task.
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|This should be `static-google-blobstore`.|None|yes|
|blobs|JSON array of Google Blobs.|None|yes|
|maxCacheCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the cache space in bytes. 0 means disabling cache. Cached files are not removed until the ingestion task completes.|1073741824|no|
|maxFetchCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the fetch space in bytes. 0 means disabling prefetch. Prefetched files are removed immediately once they are read.|1073741824|no|
|prefetchTriggerBytes|Threshold to trigger prefetching Google Blobs.|maxFetchCapacityBytes / 2|no|
|fetchTimeout|Timeout for fetching a Google Blob.|60000|no|
|maxFetchRetry|Maximum retry for fetching a Google Blob.|3|no|
Google Blobs:
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|bucket|Name of the Google Cloud bucket|None|yes|
|path|The path where data is located.|None|yes|
### HDFSFirehose
> You need to include the [`druid-hdfs-storage`](../development/extensions-core/hdfs.md) as an extension to use the HDFSFirehose.
This firehose ingests events from a predefined list of files from the HDFS storage.
This firehose is _splittable_ and can be used by the [Parallel task](#parallel-task).
This firehose provides caching and prefetching features. During native batch indexing, a firehose can be read twice if
`intervals` are not specified, and, in this case, caching can be useful. Prefetching is preferred when direct scanning
of files is slow.
Note that prefetching or caching isn't that useful in the Parallel task.
|Property|Description|Default|
|--------|-----------|-------|
|type|This should be `hdfs`.|none (required)|
|paths|HDFS paths. Can be either a JSON array or comma-separated string of paths. Wildcards like `*` are supported in these paths.|none (required)|
|maxCacheCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the cache space in bytes. 0 means disabling cache. Cached files are not removed until the ingestion task completes.|1073741824|
|maxFetchCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the fetch space in bytes. 0 means disabling prefetch. Prefetched files are removed immediately once they are read.|1073741824|
|prefetchTriggerBytes|Threshold to trigger prefetching files.|maxFetchCapacityBytes / 2|
|fetchTimeout|Timeout for fetching each file.|60000|
|maxFetchRetry|Maximum number of retries for fetching each file.|3|
This Firehose can be used to read the data from files on local disk, and is mainly intended for proof-of-concept testing, and works with `string` typed parsers.
This Firehose is _splittable_ and can be used by [native parallel index tasks](native-batch.md#parallel-task).
Since each split represents a file in this Firehose, each worker task of `index_parallel` will read a file.
A sample local Firehose spec is shown below:
```json
{
"type": "local",
"filter" : "*.csv",
"baseDir": "/data/directory"
}
```
|property|description|required?|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|type|This should be "local".|yes|
|filter|A wildcard filter for files. See [here](http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/filefilter/WildcardFileFilter.html) for more information.|yes|
|baseDir|directory to search recursively for files to be ingested. |yes|
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### HttpFirehose
This Firehose can be used to read the data from remote sites via HTTP, and works with `string` typed parsers.
This Firehose is _splittable_ and can be used by [native parallel index tasks](native-batch.md#parallel-task).
Since each split represents a file in this Firehose, each worker task of `index_parallel` will read a file.
|maxCacheCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the cache space in bytes. 0 means disabling cache. Cached files are not removed until the ingestion task completes.|1073741824|
|maxFetchCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the fetch space in bytes. 0 means disabling prefetch. Prefetched files are removed immediately once they are read.|1073741824|
|prefetchTriggerBytes|Threshold to trigger prefetching HTTP objects.|maxFetchCapacityBytes / 2|
|fetchTimeout|Timeout for fetching an HTTP object.|60000|
|maxFetchRetry|Maximum retries for fetching an HTTP object.|3|
<aname="segment-firehose"></a>
### IngestSegmentFirehose
This Firehose can be used to read the data from existing druid segments, potentially using a new schema and changing the name, dimensions, metrics, rollup, etc. of the segment.
This Firehose is _splittable_ and can be used by [native parallel index tasks](native-batch.md#parallel-task).
This firehose will accept any type of parser, but will only utilize the list of dimensions and the timestamp specification.
A sample ingest Firehose spec is shown below:
```json
{
"type": "ingestSegment",
"dataSource": "wikipedia",
"interval": "2013-01-01/2013-01-02"
}
```
|property|description|required?|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|type|This should be "ingestSegment".|yes|
|dataSource|A String defining the data source to fetch rows from, very similar to a table in a relational database|yes|
|interval|A String representing the ISO-8601 interval. This defines the time range to fetch the data over.|yes|
|dimensions|The list of dimensions to select. If left empty, no dimensions are returned. If left null or not defined, all dimensions are returned. |no|
|metrics|The list of metrics to select. If left empty, no metrics are returned. If left null or not defined, all metrics are selected.|no|
|maxInputSegmentBytesPerTask|Deprecated. Use [SegmentsSplitHintSpec](#segmentssplithintspec) instead. When used with the native parallel index task, the maximum number of bytes of input segments to process in a single task. If a single segment is larger than this number, it will be processed by itself in a single task (input segments are never split across tasks). Defaults to 150MB.|no|
This Firehose can be used to ingest events residing in an RDBMS. The database connection information is provided as part of the ingestion spec.
For each query, the results are fetched locally and indexed.
If there are multiple queries from which data needs to be indexed, queries are prefetched in the background, up to `maxFetchCapacityBytes` bytes.
This firehose will accept any type of parser, but will only utilize the list of dimensions and the timestamp specification. See the extension documentation for more detailed ingestion examples.
"sqls": ["SELECT * FROM table1", "SELECT * FROM table2"]
}
```
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|This should be "sql".||Yes|
|database|Specifies the database connection details.||Yes|
|maxCacheCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the cache space in bytes. 0 means disabling cache. Cached files are not removed until the ingestion task completes.|1073741824|No|
|maxFetchCapacityBytes|Maximum size of the fetch space in bytes. 0 means disabling prefetch. Prefetched files are removed immediately once they are read.|1073741824|No|
|prefetchTriggerBytes|Threshold to trigger prefetching SQL result objects.|maxFetchCapacityBytes / 2|No|
|fetchTimeout|Timeout for fetching the result set.|60000|No|
|foldCase|Toggle case folding of database column names. This may be enabled in cases where the database returns case insensitive column names in query results.|false|No|
|sqls|List of SQL queries where each SQL query would retrieve the data to be indexed.||Yes|
#### Database
|property|description|default|required?|
|--------|-----------|-------|---------|
|type|The type of database to query. Valid values are `mysql` and `postgresql`_||Yes|
|connectorConfig|Specify the database connection properties via `connectURI`, `user` and `password`||Yes|
### InlineFirehose
This Firehose can be used to read the data inlined in its own spec.
It can be used for demos or for quickly testing out parsing and schema, and works with `string` typed parsers.
A sample inline Firehose spec is shown below:
```json
{
"type": "inline",
"data": "0,values,formatted\n1,as,CSV"
}
```
|property|description|required?|
|--------|-----------|---------|
|type|This should be "inline".|yes|
|data|Inlined data to ingest.|yes|
### CombiningFirehose
This Firehose can be used to combine and merge data from a list of different Firehoses.
