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DTS connectors are software modules that implement the DTS communications API in order to provide access to data and functionality from a particular data source.
Connectors are generally stand-alone modules designed to run inside a container (e.g. Docker), connect to the DTS Controller and respond to requests in accordance to the DTS communications API.
The types of requests connectors can respond to depend on the mode in which they are running. This can be Metadata Mode for responding to requests to describe data structures and functionality endpoints or Data Mode for responding to data streaming and remote execution requests.
This section explores the particularities of each pre-built data source connector DTS provides.
Certain terms are used in the overview of each connector:
▪Development Platform: they fundamental runtime environment of the connector;
▪Deployment Paradigm: the way each connector is encapsulated for deployment and/or instantiated;
▪Metadata Mode Paradigm: how each connector is instantiated for use in Metadata Mode: Local (within the GUI Controller container) or Remote (in a separate container);
▪DTS_PRODUCER_CATEGORY: the exact name by which DTS knows the connector type category.
Currently available pre-built connectors are: