Version: 1.8.0

Oracle-CDC

Overview

The Oracle Extract Node allows for reading snapshot data and incremental data from Oracle database. This document describes how to setup the Oracle Extract Node to run SQL queries against Oracle databases.

Supported Version

Extract Node	Version	Driver
Oracle-CDC	Oracle: 11, 12, 19	Oracle Driver: 19.3.0.0

Dependencies

In order to setup the Oracle Extract Node, the following table provides dependency information for both projects using a build automation tool (such as Maven or SBT) and SQL Client with Sort Connectors JAR bundles.

Maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.inlong</groupId>
    <artifactId>sort-connector-oracle-cdc</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.0</version>
</dependency>

The Oracle driver dependency is also required to connect to Oracle database. Please download ojdbc8-19.3.0.0.jar and put it into FLINK_HOME/lib/.

Setup Oracle

You have to enable log archiving for Oracle database and define an Oracle user with appropriate permissions on all databases that the Debezium Oracle connector monitors.

For Non-CDB database

Enable log archiving

(1.1). Connect to the database as DBA

ORACLE_SID=SID
export ORACLE_SID
sqlplus /nolog
  CONNECT sys/password AS SYSDBA

(1.2). Enable log archiving

alter system set db_recovery_file_dest_size = 10G;
alter system set db_recovery_file_dest = '/opt/oracle/oradata/recovery_area' scope=spfile;
shutdown immediate;
startup mount;
alter database archivelog;
alter database open;

Note:

Enable log archiving requires database restart, pay attention when try to do it
The archived logs will occupy a large amount of disk space, so consider clean the expired logs the periodically
(1.3). Check whether log archiving is enabled
```
-- Should now "Database log mode: Archive Mode"
archive log list;
```
Note:
Supplemental logging must be enabled for captured tables or the database in order for data changes to capture the before state of changed database rows. The following illustrates how to configure this on the table/database level.
```
-- Enable supplemental logging for a specific table:
ALTER TABLE inventory.customers ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA (ALL) COLUMNS;
```
```
-- Enable supplemental logging for database
ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA;
```

Create an Oracle user with permissions

(2.1). Create Tablespace

sqlplus sys/password@host:port/SID AS SYSDBA;
  CREATE TABLESPACE logminer_tbs DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/SID/logminer_tbs.dbf' SIZE 25M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON MAXSIZE UNLIMITED;
  exit;

(2.2). Create a user and grant permissions

sqlplus sys/password@host:port/SID AS SYSDBA;
  CREATE USER flinkuser IDENTIFIED BY flinkpw DEFAULT TABLESPACE LOGMINER_TBS QUOTA UNLIMITED ON LOGMINER_TBS;
  GRANT CREATE SESSION TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SET CONTAINER TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$DATABASE to flinkuser;
  GRANT FLASHBACK ANY TABLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ANY TABLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ANY TRANSACTION TO flinkuser;
  GRANT LOGMINING TO flinkuser;

  GRANT CREATE TABLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT LOCK ANY TABLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT ALTER ANY TABLE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT CREATE SEQUENCE TO flinkuser;

  GRANT EXECUTE ON DBMS_LOGMNR TO flinkuser;
  GRANT EXECUTE ON DBMS_LOGMNR_D TO flinkuser;

  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOG TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOG_HISTORY TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_LOGS TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_CONTENTS TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_PARAMETERS TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGFILE TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$ARCHIVED_LOG TO flinkuser;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS TO flinkuser;
  exit;

For CDB database

Overall, the steps for configuring CDB database is quite similar to non-CDB database, but the commands may be different.

Enable log archiving

ORACLE_SID=ORCLCDB
export ORACLE_SID
sqlplus /nolog
  CONNECT sys/password AS SYSDBA
  alter system set db_recovery_file_dest_size = 10G;
  -- should exist
  alter system set db_recovery_file_dest = '/opt/oracle/oradata/recovery_area' scope=spfile;
  shutdown immediate
  startup mount
  alter database archivelog;
  alter database open;
  -- Should show "Database log mode: Archive Mode"
  archive log list
  exit;

Note: You can also use the following commands to enable supplemental logging:

-- Enable supplemental logging for a specific table:
ALTER TABLE inventory.customers ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA (ALL) COLUMNS;
-- Enable supplemental logging for database
ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA;

Create an Oracle user with permissions

sqlplus sys/password@//localhost:1521/ORCLCDB as sysdba
  CREATE TABLESPACE logminer_tbs DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/ORCLCDB/logminer_tbs.dbf' SIZE 25M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON MAXSIZE UNLIMITED;
  exit

sqlplus sys/password@//localhost:1521/ORCLPDB1 as sysdba
  CREATE TABLESPACE logminer_tbs DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/ORCLCDB/ORCLPDB1/logminer_tbs.dbf' SIZE 25M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON MAXSIZE UNLIMITED;
  exit

sqlplus sys/password@//localhost:1521/ORCLCDB as sysdba
  CREATE USER flinkuser IDENTIFIED BY flinkpw DEFAULT TABLESPACE logminer_tbs QUOTA UNLIMITED ON logminer_tbs CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT CREATE SESSION TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SET CONTAINER TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$DATABASE to flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT FLASHBACK ANY TABLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ANY TABLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ANY TRANSACTION TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT LOGMINING TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT CREATE TABLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  -- Don’t need to execute this statement, If you set 'scan.incremental.snapshot.enabled=true' (default).
  GRANT LOCK ANY TABLE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT CREATE SEQUENCE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;

  GRANT EXECUTE ON DBMS_LOGMNR TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT EXECUTE ON DBMS_LOGMNR_D TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;

  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOG TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOG_HISTORY TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_LOGS TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_CONTENTS TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGMNR_PARAMETERS TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$LOGFILE TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$ARCHIVED_LOG TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  GRANT SELECT ON V_$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS TO flinkuser CONTAINER=ALL;
  exit

See more about the Setting up Oracle

How to create an Oracle Extract Node

Usage for SQL API

The Oracle Extract Node can be defined as following:

-- Create an Oracle Extract Node 'user' in Flink SQL
Flink SQL> CREATE TABLE oracle_extract_node (
     ID INT NOT NULL,
     NAME STRING,
     DESCRIPTION STRING,
     WEIGHT DECIMAL(10, 3),
     PRIMARY KEY(id) NOT ENFORCED
     ) WITH (
     'connector' = 'oracle-cdc-inlong',
     'hostname' = 'localhost',
     'port' = '1521',
     'username' = 'flinkuser',
     'password' = 'flinkpw',
     'database-name' = 'XE',
     'schema-name' = 'inlong',
     'table-name' = 'user');
  
-- Read snapshot and binlogs from products table
Flink SQL> SELECT * FROM oracle_extract_node;

Note: When working with the CDB + PDB model, you are expected to add an extra option 'debezium.database.pdb.name' = 'xxx' in Flink DDL to specific the name of the PDB to connect to.

Usage for InLong Dashboard

TODO: It will be supported in the future.

Usage for InLong Manager Client

TODO: It will be supported in the future.

Oracle Extact Node Options

Option	Required	Default	Type	Description
connector	required	(none)	String	Specify what connector to use, here should be `oracle-cdc-inlong`.
hostname	required	(none)	String	IP address or hostname of the Oracle database server.
username	required	(none)	String	Name of the Oracle database to use when connecting to the Oracle database server.
password	required	(none)	String	Password to use when connecting to the Oracle database server.
database-name	required	(none)	String	Database name of the Oracle server to monitor.
schema-name	required	(none)	String	Schema name of the Oracle database to monitor.
table-name	required	(none)	String	Table name of the Oracle database to monitor. The value is of the form <schema_name>.<table_name>
port	optional	1521	Integer	Integer port number of the Oracle database server.
scan.startup.mode	optional	initial	String	Optional startup mode for Oracle CDC consumer, valid enumerations are "initial" and "latest-offset". Please see Startup Reading Positionsection for more detailed information.
debezium.*	optional	(none)	String	Pass-through Debezium's properties to Debezium Embedded Engine which is used to capture data changes from Oracle server. For example: `'debezium.snapshot.mode' = 'never'`. See more about the Debezium's Oracle Connector properties
inlong.metric.labels	optional	(none)	String	Inlong metric label, format of value is groupId=[groupId]&streamId=[streamId]&nodeId=[nodeId].
source.multiple.enable	optional	false	Boolean	Whether to enable multiple schema and table migration. If it is' true ', Oracle Extract Node will compress the physical field of the table into a special meta field 'data_canal' in the format of 'canal json'.
scan.incremental.snapshot.enabled	optional	true	Boolean	Incremental snapshot is a new mechanism to read snapshot of a table. Compared to the old snapshot mechanism, the incremental snapshot has many advantages, including: (1) source can be parallel during snapshot reading, (2) source can perform checkpoints in the chunk granularity during snapshot reading, (3) source doesn't need to acquire ROW SHARE MODE lock before snapshot reading.
scan.incremental.snapshot.chunk.size	optional	8096	Integer	The chunk size (number of rows) of table snapshot, captured tables are split into multiple chunks when read the snapshot of table.
scan.snapshot.fetch.size	optional	1024	Integer	The maximum fetch size for per poll when read table snapshot.
connect.max-retries	optional	3	Integer	The max retry times that the connector should retry to build Oracle database server connection.
chunk-meta.group.size	optional	1000	Integer	The group size of chunk meta, if the meta size exceeds the group size, the meta will be divided into multiple groups.
connect.timeout	optional	30s	Duration	The maximum time that the connector should wait after trying to connect to the Oracle database server before timing out.
chunk-key.even-distribution.factor.lower-bound	optional	0.05d	Double	The lower bound of chunk key distribution factor. The distribution factor is used to determine whether the table is evenly distribution or not. The table chunks would use evenly calculation optimization when the data distribution is even, and the query for splitting would happen when it is uneven. The distribution factor could be calculated by (MAX(id) - MIN(id) + 1) / rowCount.
chunk-key.even-distribution.factor.upper-bound	optional	1000.0d	Double	The upper bound of chunk key distribution factor. The distribution factor is used to determine whether the table is evenly distribution or not. The table chunks would use evenly calculation optimization when the data distribution is even, and the query for splitting would happen when it is uneven. The distribution factor could be calculated by (MAX(id) - MIN(id) + 1) / rowCount.
connection.pool.size	optional	20	Integer	The connection pool size.

Limitation

Can't perform checkpoint during scanning snapshot of tables

During scanning snapshot of database tables, since there is no recoverable position, we can't perform checkpoints. In order to not perform checkpoints, Oracle CDC source will keep the checkpoint waiting to timeout. The timeout checkpoint will be recognized as failed checkpoint, by default, this will trigger a failover for the Flink job. So if the database table is large, it is recommended to add following Flink configurations to avoid failover because of the timeout checkpoints:

execution.checkpointing.interval: 10min
execution.checkpointing.tolerable-failed-checkpoints: 100
restart-strategy: fixed-delay
restart-strategy.fixed-delay.attempts: 2147483647

Available Metadata

The following format metadata can be exposed as read-only (VIRTUAL) columns in a table definition.

Key	DataType	Description
table_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the table that contain the row.
schema_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the schema that contain the row.
database_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the database that contain the row.
op_ts	TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) NOT NULL	It indicates the time that the change was made in the database. If the record is read from snapshot of the table instead of the change stream, the value is always 0.
meta.table_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the table that contain the row.
meta.schema_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the schema that contain the row.
meta.database_name	STRING NOT NULL	Name of the database that contain the row.
meta.op_ts	TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) NOT NULL	It indicates the time that the change was made in the database. If the record is read from snapshot of the table instead of the change stream, the value is always 0.
meta.op_type	STRING	Type of database operation, such as INSERT/DELETE, etc.
meta.data_canal	STRING/BYTES	Data for rows in `canal-json` format only exists when the `source.multiple.enable` option is 'true'.
meta.is_ddl	BOOLEAN	Whether the DDL statement.
meta.ts	TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) NOT NULL	The current time when the row was received and processed.
meta.sql_type	MAP	Mapping of sql_type table fields to java data type IDs.
meta.oracle_type	MAP	Structure of the table.
meta.pk_names	ARRAY	Primay key name of the table.

The extended CREATE TABLE example demonstrates the syntax for exposing these metadata fields:

CREATE TABLE products (
    db_name STRING METADATA FROM 'database_name' VIRTUAL,
    schema_name STRING METADATA FROM 'schema_name' VIRTUAL, 
    table_name STRING METADATA  FROM 'table_name' VIRTUAL,
    op_ts TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) METADATA FROM 'op_ts' VIRTUAL,
    meta_db_name STRING METADATA FROM 'meta.database_name' VIRTUAL,
    meta_schema_name STRING METADATA FROM 'meta.schema_name' VIRTUAL, 
    meta_table_name STRING METADATA  FROM 'meta.table_name' VIRTUAL,
    meat_op_ts TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) METADATA FROM 'meta.op_ts' VIRTUAL,
    meta_op_type STRING METADATA  FROM 'meta.op_type' VIRTUAL,
    meta_data_canal STRING METADATA  FROM 'meta.data_canal' VIRTUAL,
    meta_is_ddl BOOLEAN METADATA FROM 'meta.is_ddl' VIRTUAL,
    meta_ts TIMESTAMP_LTZ(3) METADATA FROM 'meta.ts' VIRTUAL,
    meta_sql_type MAP<STRING, INT> METADATA FROM 'meta.sql_type' VIRTUAL,
    meat_oracle_type MAP<STRING, STRING> METADATA FROM 'meta.oracle_type' VIRTUAL,
    meta_pk_names ARRAY<STRING> METADATA FROM 'meta.pk_names' VIRTUAL
    ID INT NOT NULL,
    NAME STRING,
    DESCRIPTION STRING,
    WEIGHT DECIMAL(10, 3),
    PRIMARY KEY(id) NOT ENFORCED
) WITH (
    'connector' = 'oracle-cdc-inlong',
    'hostname' = 'localhost',
    'port' = '1521',
    'username' = 'flinkuser',
    'password' = 'flinkpw',
    'database-name' = 'XE',
    'schema-name' = 'inventory',
    'table-name' = 'inventory.products'
);

Note : The Oracle dialect is case-sensitive, it converts field name to uppercase if the field name is not quoted, Flink SQL doesn't convert the field name. Thus for physical columns from oracle database, we should use its converted field name in Oracle when define an oracle-cdc table in Flink SQL.

Features

Exactly-Once Processing

The Oracle Extract Node is a Flink Source connector which will read database snapshot first and then continues to read change events with exactly-once processing even failures happen. Please read How the connector works.

Startup Reading Position

The config option scan.startup.mode specifies the startup mode for Oracle CDC consumer. The valid enumerations are:

initial (default): Performs an initial snapshot on the monitored database tables upon first startup, and continue to read the latest binlog.
latest-offset: Never to perform a snapshot on the monitored database tables upon first startup, just read from the change since the connector was started.

Note: the mechanism of scan.startup.mode option relying on Debezium's snapshot.mode configuration. So please do not use them together. If you specific both scan.startup.mode and debezium.snapshot.mode options in the table DDL, it may make scan.startup.mode doesn't work.

Single Thread Reading

The Oracle Extract Node can't work in parallel reading, because there is only one task can receive change events.

Whole Database, Multiple Schemas, Multiple Tables Migration

Oracle Extract Node supports the whole database, multiple schemas, multiple tables migration function. When you enable this function, Oracle Extract Node will compress the physical field of the table into a special meta field 'data_canal' in the format of 'canal json'.

config options:

Option	Required	Default	Type	Description
source.multiple.enable	optional	false	String	Specify `'source.multiple.enable' = 'true'` to enable the whole database, multiple schemas, multiple tables migration function
schema-name	required	(none)	String	Schema name of the Oracle database to monitor. If you want to capture multiple schemas, you can use commas to separate them. For example: `'schema-name' = 'SCHEMA1,SCHEMA2'`
table-name	required	(none)	String	Table name of the Oracle database to monitor. If you want to capture multiple tables, you can use commas to separate them. For example: `'table-name' = 'SCHEMA1.TB.*, SCHEMA2.TB1'`

The CREATE TABLE example demonstrates the syntax of this function:

CREATE TABLE node(
    data STRING METADATA FROM 'meta.data_canal' VIRTUAL)
    WITH (
    'connector' = 'oracle-cdc-inlong',
    'hostname' = 'localhost',
    'port' = '1521',
    'username' = 'flinkuser',
    'password' = 'flinkpw',
    'database-name' = 'XE',
    'schema-name' = 'inventory',
    'table-name' = 'inventory..*',
    'source.multiple.enable' = 'true'
)

Data Type Mapping

Oracle type	Flink SQL type
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), p - s < 3	TINYINT
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), p - s < 5	SMALLINT
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), p - s < 10	INT
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), p - s < 19	BIGINT
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), 19 <= p - s <= 38	DECIMAL(p - s, 0)
NUMBER(p, s > 0)	DECIMAL(p, s)
NUMBER(p, s <= 0), p - s > 38	STRING
FLOAT BINARY_FLOAT	FLOAT
DOUBLE PRECISION BINARY_DOUBLE	DOUBLE
NUMBER(1)	BOOLEAN
DATE TIMESTAMP [(p)]	TIMESTAMP [(p)][WITHOUT TIMEZONE]
TIMESTAMP [(p)] WITH TIME ZONE	TIMESTAMP [(p)] WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP [(p)] WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE	TIMESTAMP_LTZ [(p)]
CHAR(n) NCHAR(n) NVARCHAR2(n) VARCHAR(n) VARCHAR2(n) CLOB NCLOB XMLType	STRING
BLOB ROWID	BYTES
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH	BIGINT

Overview​

Supported Version​

Dependencies​

Maven dependency​

Setup Oracle​

For Non-CDB database​

For CDB database​

How to create an Oracle Extract Node​

Usage for SQL API​

Usage for InLong Dashboard​

Usage for InLong Manager Client​

Oracle Extact Node Options​

Limitation​

Can't perform checkpoint during scanning snapshot of tables​

Available Metadata​

Features​

Exactly-Once Processing​

Startup Reading Position​

Single Thread Reading​

Whole Database, Multiple Schemas, Multiple Tables Migration​

Data Type Mapping​