Connectors → All


A connector specifies how the Loader Service connects to an external system or application and ingests data using a certain protocol, service, or Application Programming Interface (API). An instance of a connector with defined properties in a tenant is an External Data Source. You can create an external data source using a connector with the Data Manager. You can also develop your own connector using the Connector SDK.


In most cases, you use a connector to create an external data source. To create an external data source, you can use the Data Manager.

Application

Database

File System

Query Service

Data Lake

Custom

Streaming Data

Other

Data File

Note: Files System connector

It is not possible to create an external data source with the File System connector. LocalFiles is a built-in external data source that uses the File System connector. To extract data from a local data file, you can use LocalFiles as the Data Source type for a physical schema table.