Parameters in the configuration file¶

This topic describes how to automatically generate a template configuration file when users use NebulaGraph Exchange, and introduces the configuration file application.conf.

Generate template configuration file automatically¶

Specify the data source to be imported with the following command to get the template configuration file corresponding to the data source.

java -cp <exchange_jar_package> com.vesoft.exchange.common.GenerateConfigTemplate -s <source_type> -p <config_file_save_path>

Example:

java -cp nebula-exchange_spark_2.4-3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.vesoft.exchange.common.GenerateConfigTemplate -s csv -p /home/nebula/csv_application.conf

Configuration instructions¶

Before configuring the application.conf file, it is recommended to copy the file name application.conf and then edit the file name according to the file type of a data source. For example, change the file name to csv_application.conf if the file type of the data source is CSV.

The application.conf file contains the following content types:

Spark configurations

Hive configurations (optional)

NebulaGraph configurations

Vertex configurations

Edge configurations

Spark configurations¶

This topic lists only some Spark parameters. For more information, see Spark Configuration.

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`spark.app.name`	string	-	No	The drive name in Spark.
`spark.driver.cores`	int	`1`	No	The number of CPU cores used by a driver, only applicable to a cluster mode.
`spark.driver.maxResultSize`	string	`1G`	No	The total size limit (in bytes) of the serialized results of all partitions in a single Spark operation (such as collect). The minimum value is 1M, and 0 means unlimited.
`spark.executor.memory`	string	`1G`	No	The amount of memory used by a Spark driver which can be specified in units, such as 512M or 1G.
`spark.cores.max`	int	`16`	No	The maximum number of CPU cores of applications requested across clusters (rather than from each node) when a driver runs in a coarse-grained sharing mode on a standalone cluster or a Mesos cluster. The default value is `spark.deploy.defaultCores` on a Spark standalone cluster manager or the value of the `infinite` parameter (all available cores) on Mesos.

Hive configurations (optional)¶

Users only need to configure parameters for connecting to Hive if Spark and Hive are deployed in different clusters. Otherwise, please ignore the following configurations.

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`hive.warehouse`	string	-	Yes	The warehouse path in HDFS. Enclose the path in double quotes and start with `hdfs://`.
`hive.connectionURL`	string	-	Yes	The URL of a JDBC connection. For example, `"jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/hive_spark?characterEncoding=UTF-8"`.
`hive.connectionDriverName`	string	`"com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"`	Yes	The driver name.
`hive.connectionUserName`	list[string]	-	Yes	The username for connections.
`hive.connectionPassword`	list[string]	-	Yes	The account password.

NebulaGraph configurations¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`nebula.address.graph`	list[string]	`["127.0.0.1:9669"]`	Yes	The addresses of all Graph services, including IPs and ports, separated by commas (,). Example: `["ip1:port1","ip2:port2","ip3:port3"]`.
`nebula.address.meta`	list[string]	`["127.0.0.1:9559"]`	Yes	The addresses of all Meta services, including IPs and ports, separated by commas (,). Example: `["ip1:port1","ip2:port2","ip3:port3"]`.
`nebula.user`	string	-	Yes	The username with write permissions for NebulaGraph.
`nebula.pswd`	string	-	Yes	The account password.
`nebula.space`	string	-	Yes	The name of the graph space where data needs to be imported.
`nebula.ssl.enable.graph`	bool	`false`	Yes	Enables the SSL encryption between Exchange and Graph services. If the value is `true`, the SSL encryption is enabled and the following SSL parameters take effect. If Exchange is run on a multi-machine cluster, you need to store the corresponding files in the same path on each machine when setting the following SSL-related paths.
`nebula.ssl.sign`	string	`ca`	Yes	Specifies the SSL sign. Optional values are `ca` and `self`.
`nebula.ssl.ca.param.caCrtFilePath`	string	Specifies the storage path of the CA certificate. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `ca`.
`nebula.ssl.ca.param.crtFilePath`	string	`"/path/crtFilePath"`	Yes	Specifies the storage path of the CRT certificate. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `ca`.
`nebula.ssl.ca.param.keyFilePath`	string	`"/path/keyFilePath"`	Yes	Specifies the storage path of the key file. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `ca`.
`nebula.ssl.self.param.crtFilePath`	string	`"/path/crtFilePath"`	Yes	Specifies the storage path of the CRT certificate. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `self`.
`nebula.ssl.self.param.keyFilePath`	string	`"/path/keyFilePath"`	Yes	Specifies the storage path of the key file. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `self`.
`nebula.ssl.self.param.password`	string	`"nebula"`	Yes	Specifies the storage path of the password. It takes effect when the value of `nebula.ssl.sign` is `self`.
`nebula.path.local`	string	`"/tmp"`	No	The local SST file path which needs to be set when users import SST files.
`nebula.path.remote`	string	`"/sst"`	No	The remote SST file path which needs to be set when users import SST files.
`nebula.path.hdfs.namenode`	string	`"hdfs://name_node:9000"`	No	The NameNode path which needs to be set when users import SST files.
`nebula.connection.timeout`	int	`3000`	No	The timeout set for Thrift connections. Unit: ms.
`nebula.connection.retry`	int	`3`	No	Retries set for Thrift connections.
`nebula.execution.retry`	int	`3`	No	Retries set for executing nGQL statements.
`nebula.error.max`	int	`32`	No	The maximum number of failures during the import process. When the number of failures reaches the maximum, the Spark job submitted will stop automatically .
`nebula.error.output`	string	`/tmp/errors`	No	The path to output error logs. Failed nGQL statement executions are saved in the error log.
`nebula.rate.limit`	int	`1024`	No	The limit on the number of tokens in the token bucket when importing data.
`nebula.rate.timeout`	int	`1000`	No	The timeout period for getting tokens from a token bucket. Unit: milliseconds.

Note

NebulaGraph doesn't support vertices without tags by default. To import vertices without tags, enable vertices without tags in the NebulaGraph cluster and then add parameter nebula.enableTagless to the Exchange configuration with the value true. For example:

nebula: {
    address:{
      graph:["127.0.0.1:9669"]
      meta:["127.0.0.1:9559"]
    }
    user: root
    pswd: nebula
    space: test
    enableTagless: true
    ......

 }

Vertex configurations¶

For different data sources, the vertex configurations are different. There are many general parameters and some specific parameters. General parameters and specific parameters of different data sources need to be configured when users configure vertices.

General parameters¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.name`	string	-	Yes	The tag name defined in NebulaGraph.
`tags.type.source`	string	-	Yes	Specify a data source. For example, `csv`.
`tags.type.sink`	string	`client`	Yes	Specify an import method. Optional values are `client` and `SST`.
`tags.writeMode`	string	`INSERT`	No	Types of batch operations on data, including batch inserts, updates, and deletes. Optional values are `INSERT`, `UPDATE`, `DELETE`.
`tags.deleteEdge`	string	`false`	No	Whether or not to delete the related incoming and outgoing edges of the vertices when performing a batch delete operation. This parameter takes effect when `tags.writeMode` is `DELETE`.
`tags.fields`	list[string]	-	Yes	The header or column name of the column corresponding to properties. If there is a header or a column name, please use that name directly. If a CSV file does not have a header, use the form of `[_c0, _c1, _c2]` to represent the first column, the second column, the third column, and so on.
`tags.nebula.fields`	list[string]	-	Yes	Property names defined in NebulaGraph, the order of which must correspond to `tags.fields`. For example, `[_c1, _c2]` corresponds to `[name, age]`, which means that values in the second column are the values of the property `name`, and values in the third column are the values of the property `age`.
`tags.vertex.field`	string	-	Yes	The column of vertex IDs. For example, when a CSV file has no header, users can use `_c0` to indicate values in the first column are vertex IDs.
`tags.vertex.udf.separator`	string	-	No	Support merging multiple columns by custom rules. This parameter specifies the join character.
`tags.vertex.udf.oldColNames`	list	-	No	Support merging multiple columns by custom rules. This parameter specifies the names of the columns to be merged. Multiple columns are separated by commas.
`tags.vertex.udf.newColName`	string	-	No	Support merging multiple columns by custom rules. This parameter specifies the new column name.
`tags.vertex.prefix`	string	-	No	Add the specified prefix to the VID. For example, if the VID is `12345`, adding the prefix `tag1` will result in `tag1_12345`. The underscore cannot be modified.
`tags.vertex.policy`	string	-	No	Supports only the value `hash`. Performs hashing operations on VIDs of type string.
`tags.batch`	int	`256`	Yes	The maximum number of vertices written into NebulaGraph in a single batch.
`tags.partition`	int	`32`	Yes	The number of partitions to be created when the data is written to NebulaGraph. If `tags.partition ≤ 1`, the number of partitions to be created in NebulaGraph is the same as that in the data source.

Specific parameters of Parquet/JSON/ORC data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.path`	string	-	Yes	The path of vertex data files in HDFS. Enclose the path in double quotes and start with `hdfs://`.

Specific parameters of CSV data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.path`	string	-	Yes	The path of vertex data files in HDFS. Enclose the path in double quotes and start with `hdfs://`.
`tags.separator`	string	`,`	Yes	The separator. The default value is a comma (,). For special characters, such as the control character `^A`, you can use ASCII octal `\001` or UNICODE encoded hexadecimal `\u0001`, for the control character `^B`, use ASCII octal `\002` or UNICODE encoded hexadecimal `\u0002`, for the control character `^C`, use ASCII octal `\003` or UNICODE encoded hexadecimal `\u0003`.
`tags.header`	bool	`true`	Yes	Whether the file has a header.

Specific parameters of Hive data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.exec`	string	-	Yes	The statement to query data sources. For example, `select name,age from mooc.users`.

Specific parameters of MaxCompute data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.table`	string	-	Yes	The table name of the MaxCompute.
`tags.project`	string	-	Yes	The project name of the MaxCompute.
`tags.odpsUrl`	string	-	Yes	The odpsUrl of the MaxCompute service. For more information about odpsUrl, see Endpoints.
`tags.tunnelUrl`	string	-	Yes	The tunnelUrl of the MaxCompute service. For more information about tunnelUrl, see Endpoints.
`tags.accessKeyId`	string	-	Yes	The accessKeyId of the MaxCompute service.
`tags.accessKeySecret`	string	-	Yes	The accessKeySecret of the MaxCompute service.
`tags.partitionSpec`	string	-	No	Partition descriptions of MaxCompute tables.
`tags.sentence`	string	-	No	Statements to query data sources. The table name in the SQL statement is the same as the value of the table above.

Specific parameters of Neo4j data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.exec`	string	-	Yes	Statements to query data sources. For example: `match (n:label) return n.neo4j-field-0`.
`tags.server`	string	`"bolt://127.0.0.1:7687"`	Yes	The server address of Neo4j.
`tags.user`	string	-	Yes	The Neo4j username with read permissions.
`tags.password`	string	-	Yes	The account password.
`tags.database`	string	-	Yes	The name of the database where source data is saved in Neo4j.
`tags.check_point_path`	string	`/tmp/test`	No	The directory set to import progress information, which is used for resuming transfers. If not set, the resuming transfer is disabled.

Specific parameters of MySQL/PostgreSQL data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.host`	string	-	Yes	The MySQL/PostgreSQL server address.
`tags.port`	string	-	Yes	The MySQL/PostgreSQL server port.
`tags.database`	string	-	Yes	The database name.
`tags.table`	string	-	Yes	The name of a table used as a data source.
`tags.user`	string	-	Yes	The MySQL/PostgreSQL username with read permissions.
`tags.password`	string	-	Yes	The account password.
`tags.sentence`	string	-	Yes	Statements to query data sources. For example: `"select teamid, name from team order by teamid"`.

Specific parameters of Oracle data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.url`	string	-	Yes	The Oracle server address.
`tags.driver`	string	-	Yes	The Oracle driver address.
`tags.user`	string	-	Yes	The Oracle username with read permissions.
`tags.password`	string	-	Yes	The account password.
`tags.table`	string	-	Yes	The name of a table used as a data source.
`tags.sentence`	string	-	Yes	Statements to query data sources. For example: `"select playerid, name, age from player"`.

Specific parameters of ClickHouse data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.url`	string	-	Yes	The JDBC URL of ClickHouse.
`tags.user`	string	-	Yes	The ClickHouse username with read permissions.
`tags.password`	string	-	Yes	The account password.
`tags.numPartition`	string	-	Yes	The number of ClickHouse partitions.
`tags.sentence`	string	-	Yes	Statements to query data sources.

Specific parameters of Hbase data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.host`	string	`127.0.0.1`	Yes	The Hbase server address.
`tags.port`	string	`2181`	Yes	The Hbase server port.
`tags.table`	string	-	Yes	The name of a table used as a data source.
`tags.columnFamily`	string	-	Yes	The column family to which a table belongs.

Specific parameters of Pulsar data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.service`	string	`"pulsar://localhost:6650"`	Yes	The Pulsar server address.
`tags.admin`	string	`"http://localhost:8081"`	Yes	The admin URL used to connect pulsar.
`tags.options.<topic\|topics\| topicsPattern>`	string	-	Yes	Options offered by Pulsar, which can be configured by choosing one from `topic`, `topics`, and `topicsPattern`.
`tags.interval.seconds`	int	`10`	Yes	The interval for reading messages. Unit: seconds.

Specific parameters of Kafka data sources¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.service`	string	-	Yes	The Kafka server address.
`tags.topic`	string	-	Yes	The message type.
`tags.interval.seconds`	int	`10`	Yes	The interval for reading messages. Unit: seconds.

Specific parameters for generating SST files¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`tags.path`	string	-	Yes	The path of the source file specified to generate SST files.
`tags.repartitionWithNebula`	bool	`true`	No	Whether to repartition data based on the number of partitions of graph spaces in NebulaGraph when generating the SST file. Enabling this function can reduce the time required to DOWNLOAD and INGEST SST files.

Edge configurations¶

For different data sources, configurations of edges are also different. There are general parameters and some specific parameters. General parameters and specific parameters of different data sources need to be configured when users configure edges.

For the specific parameters of different data sources for edge configurations, please refer to the introduction of specific parameters of different data sources above, and pay attention to distinguishing tags and edges.

General parameters¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`edges.name`	string	-	Yes	The edge type name defined in NebulaGraph.
`edges.type.source`	string	-	Yes	The data source of edges. For example, `csv`.
`edges.type.sink`	string	`client`	Yes	The method specified to import data. Optional values are `client` and `SST`.
`edges.writeMode`	string	`INSERT`	No	Types of batch operations on data, including batch inserts, updates, and deletes. Optional values are `INSERT`, `UPDATE`, `DELETE`.
`edges.fields`	list[string]	-	Yes	The header or column name of the column corresponding to properties. If there is a header or column name, please use that name directly. If a CSV file does not have a header, use the form of `[_c0, _c1, _c2]` to represent the first column, the second column, the third column, and so on.
`edges.nebula.fields`	list[string]	-	Yes	Edge names defined in NebulaGraph, the order of which must correspond to `edges.fields`. For example, `[_c2, _c3]` corresponds to `[start_year, end_year]`, which means that values in the third column are the values of the start year, and values in the fourth column are the values of the end year.
`edges.source.field`	string	-	Yes	The column of source vertices of edges. For example, `_c0` indicates a value in the first column that is used as the source vertex of an edge.
`edges.source.prefix`	string	-	No	Add the specified prefix to the VID. For example, if the VID is `12345`, adding the prefix `tag1` will result in `tag1_12345`. The underscore cannot be modified.
`edges.source.policy`	string	-	No	Supports only the value `hash`. Performs hashing operations on VIDs of type string.
`edges.target.field`	string	-	Yes	The column of destination vertices of edges. For example, `_c0` indicates a value in the first column that is used as the destination vertex of an edge.
`edges.target.prefix`	string	-	No	Add the specified prefix to the VID. For example, if the VID is `12345`, adding the prefix `tag1` will result in `tag1_12345`. The underscore cannot be modified.
`edges.target.policy`	string	-	No	Supports only the value `hash`. Performs hashing operations on VIDs of type string.
`edges.ranking`	int	-	No	The column of rank values. If not specified, all rank values are `0` by default.
`edges.batch`	int	`256`	Yes	The maximum number of edges written into NebulaGraph in a single batch.
`edges.partition`	int	`32`	Yes	The number of partitions to be created when the data is written to NebulaGraph. If `edges.partition ≤ 1`, the number of partitions to be created in NebulaGraph is the same as that in the data source.

Specific parameters for generating SST files¶

Parameter	Type	Default value	Required	Description
`edges.path`	string	-	Yes	The path of the source file specified to generate SST files.
`edges.repartitionWithNebula`	bool	`true`	No	Whether to repartition data based on the number of partitions of graph spaces in NebulaGraph when generating the SST file. Enabling this function can reduce the time required to DOWNLOAD and INGEST SST files.

Last update: December 7, 2023