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Creating synthetic data from imported data

Supported data sources for Synthetic Data Generator.

Using Synthetic Data Generator, you can connect to your data no matter where it lives, using either connectors or data files.

Data size

The Synthetic Data Generator environment can import up to ~2.5GB of data.

Connectors

The following table lists the data sources that you can connect to using Synthetic Data Generator.

Connector Read Only Read & Write Notes
Amazon RDS for MySQL ✓ Replace the data set option isn't supported for this connection.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL ✓ Replace the data set option isn't supported for this connection.
Amazon Redshift ✓
Amazon S3 ✓
Apache Cassandra ✓
Apache Derby ✓
Apache HDFS (formerly known as "Hortonworks HDFS") ✓
Apache Hive ✓
Box ✓
Cloudera Impala ✓
DataStax Enterprise ✓
Dropbox ✓
FTP (remote file system transfer) ✓
Google BigQuery ✓
Google Cloud Storage ✓
Greenplum ✓
HTTP ✓
IBM Cloud Object-Storage ✓
IBM Cloud Object-Storage (infrastructure) ✓
IBM Cloud Data Engine ✓
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB ✓
IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL ✓
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL ✓
IBM Cloudant ✓
IBM Cognos-Analytics ✓
IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS ✓
IBM Db2 ✓
IBM Db2 Big SQL ✓
IBM Db2 for i ✓
IBM Db2 for z/OS ✓
IBM Db2 on Cloud ✓
IBM Db2 Warehouse ✓
IBM Informix ✓
IBM Netezza Performance Server ✓
IBM Planning Analytics (formerly known as "IBM TM1") ✓ Only the Replace the data set option is supported.
Looker ✓
MariaDB
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage ✓
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB ✓
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage ✓
Microsoft Azure File Storage ✓
Microsoft Azure SQL Database ✓
Microsoft SQL Server ✓ SQL pushback isn't supported when Active Directory is enabled.
MongoDB ✓
MySQL ✓
OData ✓
Oracle ✓
PostgreSQL ✓
Presto ✓
Salesforce.com ✓
SAP ASE ✓
SAP IQ ✓
SAP OData ✓
SingleStoreDB ✓
Snowflake ✓
Tableau ✓
Teradata ✓

Data files

In addition to using data from remote data sources or integrated databases, you can use data from files. You can work with data from the following types of files using Synthetic Data Generator.

Connector Read Only Read & Write
AVRO ✓
CSV/delimited ✓
Excel (XLS, XLSX) ✓
JSON ✓
ORC
Parquet
SAS ✓
SAV ✓
SHP
XML ✓