Structure

Below is the structure of the replication configuration file.

Root Level

At the root level, we have the following keys:

# 'source', 'target' and 'streams' keys are required
source: <connection name>
target: <connection name>

defaults: <replication stream map>

hooks: <replication level hooks map>

streams:
  <stream name>: <replication stream map>

env:
  <variable name>: <variable value>

Stream Level

The <stream name> identifies the stream to replicate. This can be either a source table name, a file path, or a wildcard pattern using *. Wildcards allow matching multiple tables within a schema or multiple files within a directory. For example, my_schema.* matches all tables in my_schema, while data/*.csv matches all CSV files in the data directory. See Tags & Wildcards for more details.

The <replication stream map> is a map object which accepts the following keys:

object: <target table or file name>
mode: full-refresh | incremental | truncate | snapshot | backfill
description: <stream description>
disabled: true | false

primary_key: [<array of column names to use as primary key>]
update_key: <column name to use as incremental key>

columns: {<map of column name to data type>}
select: [<array of column names to include or exclude>]
files: [<array of file paths to include or exclude>]
where: <SQL where clause. Also accepts placeholders update_key, incremental_value, and incremental_where_cond>
single: true | false
sql: <source custom SQL query>
transforms: [<array of transforms or map of column name to array of transforms>]
hooks: <stream level hooks map>

source_options: <source options map>
target_options: <target options map>

Hooks

The <replication level hooks map> and <stream level hooks map> accepts the keys below. See Hooks for more details.

# replication level, at start and end of replication
start: [<array of hooks>]
end: [<array of hooks>]

# stream level, before and after a stream run
pre: [<array of hooks>]
post: [<array of hooks>]
pre_merge: [<array of hooks>]   # since v1.4.24
post_merge: [<array of hooks>]  # since v1.4.24

Source Options

The <source options map> accepts the keys below. See Source Options for more details.

compression: auto | none | zip | gzip | snappy | zstd
chunk_size: <backfill chunk size>
datetime_format: auto | <ISO 8601 date format>
delimiter: <character to use as flat file delimiter>
encoding: latin1 | latin5 | latin9 | utf8 | utf8_bom | utf16 | windows1250 | windows1252
empty_as_null: true | false
escape: <character to use as flat file quote escape>
flatten: true | false
format: csv | xml | xlsx | json | parquet | avro | sas7bdat | jsonlines | arrow | delta | raw | geojson
header: true | false
jmespath: <JMESPath expression>
limit: <integer>
null_if: <null_if expression>
range: <backfill range expression>
sheet: <excel sheet/range expression>
skip_blank_lines: true | false

Target Options

The <target options map> accepts the keys below. See Target Options for more details.

add_new_columns: true | false
adjust_column_type: true | false
batch_limit: <integer>
column_casing: source | target | snake | upper | lower
column_typing: {map of column type generation configuration}
compression: auto | none | gzip | snappy | zstd
datetime_format: auto | <ISO 8601 date format>
delimiter: <character to use as flat file delimiter>
delete_missing: hard | soft
direct_insert: true | false
encoding: latin1 | latin5 | latin9 | utf8 | utf8_bom | utf16 | windows1250 | windows1252
isolation_level: default | read_uncommitted | read_committed | write_committed | repeatable_read | snapshot | serializable | linearizable
file_max_bytes: <integer>
file_max_rows: <integer>
format: csv | xlsx | json | parquet | raw
header: true | false
ignore_existing: true | false
table_ddl: <ddl sql query>
table_keys: {map of table key type to array of column names}
table_tmp: <name of table>
use_bulk: true | false

Replication Specification

Here we have the definitions for the accepted keys.

Replication Config Key	Description
source	The source database connection (name, conn string or URL).
target	The target database connection (name, conn string or URL).
hooks	The replication level hooks to apply (at start & end of replication). See here for details.
streams.<key>	The source table (schema.table), local / cloud file path. Use file:// for local paths.
streams.<key>.object or defaults.object	The target table (schema.table) or local / cloud file path. Use file:// for local paths.
streams.<key>.columns or defaults.columns	The columns types map. See here for details.
streams.<key>.transforms or defaults.transforms	The transforms to apply. See here for details.
streams.<key>.hooks or defaults.hooks	The stream level hooks to apply (pre- & post-stream run). See here for details.
streams.<key>.mode or defaults.mode	The target load mode to use: incremental, truncate, full-refresh, backfill or snapshot. Default is full-refresh.
streams.<key>.select or defaults.select	Select or exclude specific columns from the source stream. Use - prefix to exclude.
streams.<key>.single or defaults.single	When using a wildcard (*) in the stream name, consider as a single stream (don't expand into many streams).
streams.<key>.sql or defaults.sql	The custom SQL query to use. Accepts file://path/to.query.sql as well.
streams.<key>.primary_key or defaults.primary_key	The column(s) to use as primary key. If composite key, use array.
streams.<key>.update_key or defaults.update_key	The column to use as update key (for incremental mode).
streams.<key>.source_options or defaults.source_options	Options to further configure source. See here for details.
streams.<key>.target_options or defaults.target_options	Options to further configure target. See here for details.
env	Environment variables to use for replication. See here for details.