Apache Ozone

Apache Ozone storage stores encrypted and dispersed data across multiple geographic locations.

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If you select Apache Ozone from the Storage section, configure the following details:

Field Description
Display name Enter the name to be displayed.
Bucket name Enter the name of your existing bucket.
Endpoint Enter the Endpoint URL. Test connection is enabled when the endpoint is provided.
Input method
Note: This field is available only when use of secrets from an external vault (HashiCorp) is configured for your connections.
 Choose the credential input method:
  • Enter credential manually
  • Use secret from vault
To use secrets from an external vault, select the Use secret from vault option and complete the following steps:
  1. Click Select secret.
  2. Select one or more secrets and click Select.

Access key

Secret key

If you are using secrets from vault, then select the Access key and Secret key from the respective drop-down lists. Otherwise, enter your Access key and Secret key in the respective fields.
Connection status Click the Test connection link to test the bucket connection. If the bucket connection is successful, a success message appears.

Console UI

Associate catalog

Console UI

Select the checkbox to associate a catalog to the data source. This catalog is automatically associated with your data source and serves as your query interface with the data stored within.
Catalog type / Type

  • Console UI

    Catalog type: Select the catalog type from the list. The recommended catalog is Apache Iceberg. The other option for catalog is Apache Hive.

  • Platform UI

    Type: Select the database type from the list. The recommended database is Apache Iceberg. The other option for database is Apache Hive.
Catalog name / Name

  • Console UI

    Catalog name: Enter the name of the catalog.

  • Platform UI

    Name: Enter the name of the database associated with your data source. The database serves as your query interface with the data stored within.
Base path (optional)
Note: This field appears only when you select Apache Iceberg as the data source type.
 Enter the base path for the catalog in the object storage. This allows you to associate multiple Iceberg data sources with a single storage.
Note: You cannot share a storage between Iceberg and non-Iceberg data sources.
Associate Click Associate to associate the storage.

Limitations:

  • Apache Ozone storage requires three datanodes to create iceberg tables from watsonx.data.