When you use Data Transmission Service (DTS) to migrate or synchronize data to a Kafka cluster, you can select the format in which data records are stored. This topic describes the definition of the data formats to facilitate your data parsing.

Data formats

DTS allows you to store data into a Kafka cluster in the following formats:

  • DTS Avro: A data serialization format into which data structures or objects can be converted.
  • Shareplex JSON: The format in which the data read from the source database by using the data replication software SharePlex is stored.
  • Canal JSON: The format in which data is stored in a Kafka cluster after Canal parses the logs about the incremental data of the source database and transmits the incremental data to a Kafka cluster.

DTS Avro

DTS Avro is the default data format. Data migrated or synchronized to a Kafka cluster by using DTS is stored in the Avro format. You must parse the data based on the schema definition of DTS Avro. For more information, visit GitHub.

Shareplex JSON

Table 1. The following table describes the parameters related to the Shareplex JSON format.
Parameter Description
time The UTC time when the transaction in the database is committed. It is in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format.
userid The ID of the user who commits the transaction.
op The operation type. Valid values: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, TRUNCATE, DROP COLUMN, UPDATE BEFORE, and UPDATE AFTER.
scn The system change number (SCN) that identifies the version of the transaction that the database commits at a specific time. Each committed transaction is assigned a unique SCN.
rowid A relatively unique address value that is used to identify a record in the database.
trans The ID of the transaction.
seq The sequence number of the operation in the transaction. It starts from 1.
size The total number of operations in the transaction.
table The table name.
idx The index of the operation in the transaction. It is in the seq/size format. For example, 1/11 indicates that the sequence number of the operation is 1 in the transaction that contains a total number of 11 operations.
posttime The time when the transaction is committed to the destination database.

Examples

  • Data inserted
    {
    "meta": {
        "time": "2017-06-16T14:24:34", 
        "userid": 84,                                    
        "op": "ins",                                   
          "scn": "14589063118712",                  
          "rowid": "AAATGpAAIAAItcIAAA",      
        "trans": "7.0.411499",                 
        "seq": 1,                                          
        "size": 11,                                         
        "table": "CL_BIZ1.MIO_LOG",       
          "idx": "1/11",                                       
        "posttime": "2017-06-16T14:33:52"
    },
    "data": {
        "MIO_LOG_ID": "32539737"
     }
}
  • Data updated
    {
    "meta": {
        "time": "2017-06-16T15:38:13",
        "userid": 84,
        "op": "upd",                             
        "table": "CL_BIZ1.MIO_LOG"
        ...
    },
    "data": {                                          
        "CNTR_NO": "1171201606"
    },
    "key": {                                            
        "MIO_LOG_ID": "32537893",
        "PLNMIO_REC_ID": "31557806",
        "POL_CODE": null,
        "CNTR_TYPE": null,
        "CNTR_NO": "1171201606syui26"
    }
}
  • Data deleted
    {
    "meta": {
        "time": "2017-06-16T15:51:35",
        "userid": 84,
        "op": "del",                      
     },
    "data": {                                    
        "MIO_LOG_ID": "32539739",
        "PLNMIO_REC_ID": "31557806",
        "POL_CODE": null,
        "CNTR_TYPE": null,
        "CG_NO": null
     }
}

Canal JSON

Table 2. The following table describes the parameters related to the Canal JSON format.
Parameter Description
database The database name.
es The time when the operation is performed on the database. The value is a 13-bit UNIX timestamp. Unit: milliseconds.
Note You can use a search engine to obtain a UNIX timestamp converter.
id The serial number of the operation.
isDdl Indicates whether the operation is a DDL operation.
  • true: The operation is a DDL operation.
  • false: The operation is not a DDL operation.
mysqlType The data type of the field.
old and data The data before update.
Note For change tracking instances that are created before March 20, 2022, the value of old is data and the value of data is NULL. To keep consistent with the open source community, the data value is data and the old value is NULL for change tracking instances that are created or restarted as of March 20, 2022.
pkNames The name of the primary key.
sql The SQL statement.
sqlType The data type of the field after conversion. For example, the type LONG is converted from UNSIGNED INTEGER and BIGDECIMAL from UNSIGNED LONG.
table The table name.
ts The time when the data is written to the destination database. The value is in the 13-bit UNIX timestamp format. Unit: milliseconds.
Note You can use a search engine to obtain a UNIX timestamp converter.
type The operation type. Valid values: DELETE, UPDATE, and INSERT.

Examples of data updated

Note For change tracking instances that are created before March 20, 2022, after the DELETE statements of the source table is synchronized, the old value is data and the data value is NULL. To keep consistent with the open source community, the data value is data and the old value is NULL for change tracking instances that are created or restarted as of March 20, 2022.
Change tracking instances that are created before March 20, 2022
{
    "old": [
        {
            "shipping_type": "aaa"
        }
    ], 
    "database": "dbname", 
    "es": 1600161894000, 
    "id": 58, 
    "isDdl": false, 
    "mysqlType": {
        "id": "bigint(20)", 
        "shipping_type": "varchar(50)"
    }, 
    "pkNames": [
        "id"
    ], 
    "sql": "", 
    "sqlType": {
        "id": -5, 
        "shipping_type": 12
    }, 
    "table": "tablename", 
    "ts": 1600161894771, 
    "type": "DELETE"
}
Change tracking instances that are created or restarted as of March 20, 2022
{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "500000287", 
            "shipping_type": null
        }
    ], 
    "database": "dbname", 
    "es": 1600161894000, 
    "id": 58, 
    "isDdl": false, 
    "mysqlType": {
        "id": "bigint(20)", 
        "shipping_type": "varchar(50)"
    }, 
    "pkNames": [
        "id"
    ], 
    "sql": "", 
    "sqlType": {
        "id": -5, 
        "shipping_type": 12
    }, 
    "table": "tablename", 
    "ts": 1600161894771, 
    "type": "DELETE"
}

Example of a DDL operation

{  
    "database": "dbname",    The name of the source database.
    "es": 1600161894000,    The time when the data is written to the binary logs of the source database.
    "id": 58,      The offsets of DTS cache.
    "isDdl": true,       Indicates that the operation is a DDL operation.
    "sql": "eg: create xxx",      The DDL statements recorded in the binary logs.
    "table": "tablename",       The name of the table that is synchronized.
    "ts": 1600161894771,      The time when the data is written to the destination database by using DTS.
    "type": "DDL"                 
}