Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud.

Compatibility

Dremio supports the following Amazon OpenSearch Service versions:

• 5.x
• 6.0
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 7.0+

Amazon OpenSearch is supported as a data source in Dremio Software on-premises deployments.

note

As of Dremio Software version 21.3.0+ and 22.0.3+, Amazon OpenSearch is supported as a data source in AWS Edition.

Dremio Configuration

General

On the General tab, enter a name for the source, connection details, and authentication credentials.

Connection

Name	Description
Host	AWS OpenSearch Host name.
Port	Port on which the AWS OpenSearch service is running (usually 443).

Authentication

• AWS Access Key method -- Used for key-based authentication.
  • AWS Access Key -- AWS access key
  • AWS Access Secret -- AWS access secret.
• EC2 Metadata method -- Dremio uses IAM policy from EC2 instance
• AWS Profile -- Dremio sources profile credentials from the specified AWS profile. For information on how to set up a configuration or credentials file for AWS, see AWS Custom Authentication.
  • Profile Name (Optional) -- The AWS profile name. If this is left blank, then the default profile will be used. For more information about using profiles in a credentials or configuration file, see AWS's documentation on Configuration and credential file settings.
• No Authentication -- No Authentication: No credentials required.

Advanced Options

On the Advanced Options tab, enter the options specific to the OpenSearch Service, encryption, and AWS.

OpenSearch options

• Show hidden indices that start with a dot (.).
• Use Painless scripting with OpenSearch 5.0+ (Checked as a default).
• Show _id columns.
• Use index/doc fields when pushing down aggregates and filters on analyzed and normalized fields (may produce unexpected results).
• Use scripts for query pushdown** (Checked as a default).
• If the number of records returned from OpenSearch is less than the expected number, warn instead of failing the query.
• Read timeout (seconds) (default: 60)
• Scroll timeout (seconds) (default: 300)
• Scroll size -- This setting must be less than or equal to your OpenSearch value for the index.max_result-window setting. (default: 4000)

Encryption

Validation modes include:

• Validate certificate and hostname (default)
• Validate certificate only
• Do not validate certificate or hostname

AWS

• Overwrite reqion -- If the box is checked, provide the region.

Reflection Refresh

• Never refresh -- Specifies how often to refresh based on hours, days, weeks, or never.
• Never expire -- Specifies how often to expire based on hours, days, weeks, or never.

Metadata

Dataset Handling

• Remove dataset definitions if underlying data is unavailable (Default).
  If this box is not checked and the underlying files under a folder are removed or the folder/source is not accessible, Dremio does not remove the dataset definitions. This option is useful in cases when files are temporarily deleted and put back in place with new sets of files.

Metadata Refresh

• Dataset Discovery -- Refresh interval for top-level source object names such as names of DBs and tables.
  • Fetch every -- Specify fetch time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 1 hour
• Dataset Details -- The metadata that Dremio needs for query planning such as information needed for fields, types, shards, statistics, and locality.
  • Fetch mode -- Specify either Only Queried Datasets, All Datasets, or As Needed. Default: Only Queried Datasets
    • Only Queried Datasets -- Dremio updates details for previously queried objects in a source.
      This mode increases query performance because less work is needed at query time for these datasets.
    • All Datasets -- Dremio updates details for all datasets in a source. This mode increases query performance because less work is needed at query time.
    • As Needed -- Dremio updates details for a dataset at query time. This mode minimized metadata queries on a source when not used, but might lead to longer planning times.
  • Fetch every -- Specify fetch time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 1 hour
  • Expire after -- Specify expiration time based on minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Default: 3 hours

Privileges

You can specify which users can edit the source. For more information, see Privileges.