Flexter User Guide - v2.7


What is Flexter?

This section gives an introduction to Flexter and its benefits.

Features

This section details the features of Flexter and how powerful can it be for you usage.

Concepts and Terminology

This section covers some of the important working concepts of Flexter and the terminology used as part of it.

Conversion Process

Flexter offers a lot of conversion options as per the data available with the user. This section delves into the details of such processes.

Installation

The flexter installation process.

Flexter Modules

When you install Flexter, four modules are installed as command line tools.

Configuration

This section gives an idea of Flexter configurations and settings which are recommended for usage.

Creating a Data Flow

This section covers the processes by which Flexter can create a Data Flow.

Data Conversion

This section demonstrates the Flexter Data Conversion syntax and solutions.

Source Connections

This section goes through the Flexter source connection creation procedure.

Target Connections

This section goes through the Flexter target connection creation procedure.

Logging

This section describes how Flexter currently allows logging features into its functioning.

Merging and Converting Files

This section describes how Flexter has a way of solving small files problem by Hadoop by offering Merging features using merge2er.

Working with the metadata database

This section describes how Flexter metadata database can be accessed to gain further insight into you data.

Rest API

Flexter offers an option to run commands through Rest API. This option comes with Flexter-UI module and is disabled by default.

Reference Architecture

Here are some reference architectures for Flexter. This is just a small list and Flexter also runs on-premise in your data center or on Google Cloud and many more.

Security architecture

Flexter reference architecture and security best practices

Release Notes

Release notes from the previous versions of Flexter.

Support Policy

Overview