A Singer target that writes data to parquet files. This target is based on [target-csv] Targetcsv and the code was adapted to generate parquet files instead of csv files.

target-parquet works with a Singer Tap in order to move data ingested by the tap into parquet files. Note that the parquet file will be written once all the data is imported from the tap.

We will use tap-exchangeratesapi to pull currency exchange rate data from a public data set as an example.

First, make sure Python 3 is installed on your system or follow these installation instructions for Mac or Ubuntu.

It is recommended to install each Tap and Target in a separate Python virtual environment to avoid conflicting dependencies between any Taps and Targets.

 # Install tap-exchangeratesapi in its own virtualenv
python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/tap-exchangeratesapi
source ~/.virtualenvs/tap-exchangeratesapi/bin/activate
pip3 install tap-exchangeratesapi
deactivate

# Install target-parquet in its own virtualenv
python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/target-parquet
source ~/.virtualenvs/target-parquet/bin/activate
pip3 install target-parquet
deactivate

We can now run tap-exchangeratesapi and pipe the output to target-parquet.

~/.virtualenvs/tap-exchangeratesapi/bin/tap-exchangeratesapi | ~/.virtualenvs/target-parquet/bin/target-parquet

By default, the data will be written into a file called exchange_rate-{timestamp}.parquet in your working directory.

› cat exchange_rate-{timestamp}.parquet
AUD,BGN,BRL,CAD,CHF,CNY,CZK,DKK,GBP,HKD,HRK,HUF,IDR,ILS,INR,JPY,KRW,MXN,MYR,NOK,NZD,PHP,PLN,RON,RUB,SEK,SGD,THB,TRY,ZAR,EUR,USD,date
1.3023,1.8435,3.0889,1.3109,1.0038,6.869,25.47,7.0076,0.79652,7.7614,7.0011,290.88,13317.0,3.6988,66.608,112.21,1129.4,19.694,4.4405,8.3292,1.3867,50.198,4.0632,4.2577,58.105,8.9724,1.4037,34.882,3.581,12.915,0.9426,1.0,2017-02-24T00:00:00Z

If you want to save the file in a specific location and not the working directory, then, you need to create a configuration file, in which you specify the path to the directory you are interested in and pass the -c argument to the target. Also, you can compress the parquet file by passing the compression_method argument in the configuration file. Note that, at the moment (April, 2019), the only compression mode available in pyarrow is gzip. Thus, this is the only value that will ensure that the parquet file will be compressed. Anything else (bz2, zip, xz), will generate an exception in the pyarrow module. For an example of the configuration file, see config.sample.json.

To run target-parquet with the configuration file, use this command:

~/.virtualenvs/tap-exchangeratesapi/bin/tap-exchangeratesapi | ~/.virtualenvs/target-parquet/bin/target-parquet -c config.json

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