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TiDB Cloud Lake dialect for SQLAlchemy.

Installation

The package is installable through PIP:

pip install tidbcloudlake-sqlalchemy

Usage

Use a lake:// URL with SQLAlchemy. The database name and warehouse are part of the URL:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text

engine = create_engine(
    "lake://<username>:<password>@<host>:443/default?warehouse=default"
)
with engine.connect() as connection:
    assert connection.execute(text("SELECT 1")).scalar_one() == 1

Merge Command Support

TiDB Cloud Lake SQLAlchemy supports upserts via its Merge custom expression. See Merge for full documentation.

The Merge command can be used as below:

from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy import MetaData, create_engine
from tidbcloudlake_sqlalchemy.tidbcloudlake_dialect import Merge

engine = create_engine("lake://<username>:<password>@<host>:443/default?warehouse=default")
session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)()
connection = engine.connect()

meta = MetaData()
meta.reflect(bind=session.bind)
t1 = meta.tables['t1']
t2 = meta.tables['t2']

merge = Merge(target=t1, source=t2, on=t1.c.t1key == t2.c.t2key)
merge.when_matched_then_delete().where(t2.c.marked == 1)
merge.when_matched_then_update().where(t2.c.isnewstatus == 1).values(val = t2.c.newval, status=t2.c.newstatus)
merge.when_matched_then_update().values(val=t2.c.newval)
merge.when_not_matched_then_insert().values(val=t2.c.newval, status=t2.c.newstatus)
connection.execute(merge)

Copy Into Command Support

TiDB Cloud Lake SQLAlchemy supports copy into operations through its CopyIntoTable and CopyIntoLocation methods. See CopyIntoLocation or CopyIntoTable for full documentation.

The CopyIntoTable command can be used as below:

import base64

from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy import MetaData, create_engine
from tidbcloudlake_sqlalchemy import (
    CopyIntoTable, GoogleCloudStorage, ParquetFormat, CopyIntoTableOptions,
    FileColumnClause, CSVFormat, Compression,
)

engine = create_engine("lake://<username>:<password>@<host>:443/default?warehouse=default")
session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)()
connection = engine.connect()

meta = MetaData()
meta.reflect(bind=session.bind)
t1 = meta.tables['t1']
t2 = meta.tables['t2']
gcs_private_key = 'full_gcs_json_private_key'
case_sensitive_columns = True

copy_into = CopyIntoTable(
    target=t1,
    from_=GoogleCloudStorage(
        uri='gcs://bucket-name/path/to/file',
        credentials=base64.b64encode(gcs_private_key.encode()).decode(),
    ),
    file_format=ParquetFormat(),
    options=CopyIntoTableOptions(
        force=True,
        column_match_mode='CASE_SENSITIVE' if case_sensitive_columns else None,
    )
)
result = connection.execute(copy_into)
result.fetchall()  # always call fetchall() to ensure the cursor executes to completion

# More involved example with column selection clause that can be altered to perform operations on the columns during import.

copy_into = CopyIntoTable(
    target=t2,
    from_=FileColumnClause(
        columns=', '.join([
            f'${index + 1}'
            for index, column in enumerate(t2.columns)
        ]),
        from_=GoogleCloudStorage(
            uri='gcs://bucket-name/path/to/file',
            credentials=base64.b64encode(gcs_private_key.encode()).decode(),
        )
    ),
    pattern='*.*',
    file_format=CSVFormat(
        record_delimiter='\n',
        field_delimiter=',',
        quote='"',
        escape='',
        skip_header=1,
        empty_field_as='NULL',
        compression=Compression.AUTO,
    ),
    options=CopyIntoTableOptions(
        force=True,
    )
)
result = connection.execute(copy_into)
result.fetchall()  # always call fetchall() to ensure the cursor executes to completion

The CopyIntoLocation command can be used as below:

import base64

from sqlalchemy import MetaData, create_engine, select
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from tidbcloudlake_sqlalchemy import (
    CopyIntoLocation, GoogleCloudStorage, ParquetFormat, CopyIntoLocationOptions,
)

engine = create_engine("lake://<username>:<password>@<host>:443/default?warehouse=default")
session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)()
connection = engine.connect()

meta = MetaData()
meta.reflect(bind=session.bind)
t1 = meta.tables['t1']
gcs_private_key = 'full_gcs_json_private_key'

copy_into = CopyIntoLocation(
    target=GoogleCloudStorage(
        uri='gcs://bucket-name/path/to/target_file',
        credentials=base64.b64encode(gcs_private_key.encode()).decode(),
    ),
    from_=select(t1).where(t1.c['col1'] == 1),
    file_format=ParquetFormat(),
    options=CopyIntoLocationOptions(
        single=True,
        overwrite=True,
        include_query_id=False,
        use_raw_path=True,
    )
)
result = connection.execute(copy_into)
result.fetchall()  # always call fetchall() to ensure the cursor executes to completion

Table Options

TiDB Cloud Lake SQLAlchemy supports Lake-specific table options for Engine, Cluster Keys and Transient tables

The table options can be used as below:

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, MetaData, String, Table, cast, create_engine

engine = create_engine("lake://<username>:<password>@<host>:443/default?warehouse=default")

meta = MetaData()
# Example of Transient Table
t_transient = Table(
    "t_transient",
    meta,
    Column("c1", Integer),
    lake_transient=True,
)

# Example of Engine
t_engine = Table(
    "t_engine",
    meta,
    Column("c1", Integer),
    lake_engine='Memory',
)

# Examples of Table with Cluster Keys
t_cluster_1 = Table(
    "t_cluster_1",
    meta,
    Column("c1", Integer),
    lake_cluster_by=[c1],
)
#
c = Column("id", Integer)
c2 = Column("Name", String)
t_cluster_2 = Table(
    't_cluster_2',
    meta,
    c,
    c2,
    lake_cluster_by=[cast(c, String), c2],
)

meta.create_all(engine)

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