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JDBC drivers allow Fusion to connect to various databases, enabling data ingestion from a wide range of sources. These drivers are also managed by ConfigSync, ensuring that Fusion has the necessary drivers to connect to your databases. For more information, see Upload a JDBC Driver to Fusion.
The JDBC V2 connector is supported, and fetches documents from a relational database via SQL queries. Under the hood, this connector implements the Solr DataImportHandler (DIH) plugin.Fusion stores JDBC drivers in the blob store. You can upload a driver using the Fusion UI or the Blob Store API.

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How to upload a JDBC driver using the Fusion UI

  1. In the Fusion UI, navigate to System > Blobs.
  2. Click Add.
  3. Select JDBC Driver.
    The “New ‘JDBC Driver’ Upload” panel appears.     Uploading a connector
  4. Click Choose File and select the .jar file from your file system. Uploading connector
  5. Click Upload.
    The new driver’s blob manifest appears.     Uploaded connector
From this screen you can also delete or replace the driver.

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How to install a JDBC driver using the API

  1. Upload the JAR file to Fusion’s blob store using the /blobs/{id} endpoint. Specify an arbitrary blob ID, and a resourceType value of plugin:connector, as in this example: 
    curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -H "content-type:application/java-archive" -H "content-length:707261" -X PUT --data-binary @postgresql-42.0.0.jar http://localhost:8764/api/blobs/mydriver?resourceType=driver:jdbc
    Success response: 
    {
  "name" : "mydriver",
  "contentType" : "application/java-archive",
  "size" : 707261,
  "modifiedTime" : "2017-06-09T19:00:48.919Z",
  "version" : 0,
  "md5" : "c67163ca764bfe632f28229c142131b5",
  "metadata" : {
    "subtype" : "driver:jdbc",
    "drivers" : "org.postgresql.Driver",
    "resourceType" : "driver:jdbc"
  }
}
    Fusion automatically publishes the event to the cluster, and the listeners perform the driver installation process on each node.
    If the blob ID is identical to an existing one, the old driver will be uninstalled and the new driver will installed in its place. To get the list of existing blob IDs, run: curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://FUSION_HOST:FUSION_PORT/api/blobs
  2. To verify the uploaded driver, run: 
    curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://FUSION_HOST:FUSION_PORT/api/blobs/BLOB_ID/manifest
    Where the BLOB_ID is the name specified during upload, such as “mydriver” above. A success response looks like this: 
    {
  "name" : "mydriver",
  "contentType" : "application/java-archive",
  "size" : 707261,
  "modifiedTime" : "2017-06-09T19:05:17.897Z",
  "version" : 1569755095787110400,
  "md5" : "c67163ca764bfe632f28229c142131b5",
  "metadata" : {
    "subtype" : "driver:jdbc",
    "drivers" : "org.postgresql.Driver",
    "resourceType" : "driver:jdbc"
  }
}
Store your JDBC drivers in _lw_system/jdbc-drivers. ConfigSync handles the rest, making sure they’re available for Fusion to use.