S3 Parquet

OLake Go supports writing in parquet format directly to S3. Before proceeding with the S3 Parquet destination, we recommend reviewing the Getting Started and Installation sections.

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Prerequisites

• Before setting up the destination, make sure you have successfully set up the source.
• AWS S3: Review the minimum required IAM Permissions for S3 Parquet Writer.
• GCS: Review GCP IAM Permission for role-based access, and create HMAC keys for your service account to use as S3 credentials. See Creation of HMAC Keys below.

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Configuration

OLake UI

• Before setting up the destination, make sure you have successfully set up the source.

Key	Description	Data Type	Probable Values
S3 Bucket	The name of the Amazon/Google S3 bucket (without s3:// or gs://) where your output files will be stored. Ensure that the bucket exists and that you have proper access.	string	A valid S3 bucket name (e.g. "olake-s3-test")
S3 Region	The AWS/MinIO/GCS region where the specified S3 bucket is hosted.	string	AWS/GCS region codes such as "ap-south-1", "us-west-2", etc.
S3 Access Key	The AWS/MinIO/GCS HMAC access key used for authenticating S3 requests.	string	A valid AWS/GCS HMAC access key
S3 Secret Key	The AWS/MinIO/GCS HMAC secret key used for S3 authentication. This key should be kept secure.	string	A valid AWS/GCS HMAC secret key
S3 Path	The specific path (or prefix) within the S3 bucket where data files will be written. This is typically a folder path that starts with a / (e.g. "/data").	string	A valid path string
S3 Endpoint	(Optional) Custom S3-compatible endpoint. Required when using GCS HMAC keys or MinIO S3.	string	"https://storage.googleapis.com", "https://<MinIO-Storage-Endpoint>:9000"
Max File Size (MB)	(Optional) Rolls a partition into a new parquet file once the current file reaches this size in MB. Fractional values are allowed. Defaults to 512 when unset.	number	A positive number (integers e.g. 512, 128 or fractional e.g. 0.1 for 100KB)

OLake CLI

destination.json

{
    "type": "PARQUET",
    "writer": {
      "s3_bucket": "<BUCKET_NAME>",
      "s3_region": "ap-south-1",
      "s3_access_key": "XXX",
      "s3_secret_key": "XXX",
      "s3_path": "/data",
      "s3_endpoint": "http://<S3_ENDPOINT>:9000"
    }
}

Key	Description	Data Type	Probable Values
type	Specifies the output file format for writing data. Currently, only the "PARQUET" format is supported.	string	"PARQUET"
s3_bucket	The name of the Amazon S3/GCS bucket (without s3:// or gs://) where your output files will be stored. Ensure that the bucket exists and that you have proper access.	string	A valid S3 bucket name (e.g. "olake-s3-test")
s3_region	The AWS/GCS region where the specified S3 bucket is hosted.	string	AWS/GCS region codes such as "us-west-2", "ap-south-1", etc.
s3_access_key	The AWS/GCS HMAC access key used for authenticating S3 requests.	string	A valid AWS/GCS HMAC access key
s3_secret_key	The AWS/GCS HMAC secret key used for S3 authentication. This key should be kept secure.	string	A valid AWS/GCS HMAC secret key
s3_endpoint	(Optional) The custom endpoint for S3-compatible services. Required for GCS using HMAC keys.	string	"https://storage.googleapis.com"
s3_path	(Optional) The specific path (or prefix) within the S3 bucket where data files will be written. This is typically a folder path that starts with a / (e.g. "/data").	string	A valid path string
max_file_size_mb	(Optional) Rolls a partition into a new parquet file once the current file reaches this size in MB. Fractional values are allowed. Defaults to 512 when unset.	number	A positive number (integers e.g. 512, 128 or fractional e.g. 0.1 for 100KB)

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info

1. The generated .parquet files use SNAPPY compression (Read more). Note that SNAPPY is no longer supported by S3 Select when performing queries.
2. OLake Go creates a test folder named olake_writer_test containing a single text file (.txt) with the content:
   S3 write test

   This is used to verify that you have the necessary permissions to write to S3.