# Creating synthetic data from imported data #

Supported data sources for Synthetic Data Generator\.

Using Synthetic Data Generator, you can connect to your data no matter where it lives, using either connectors or data files\.

## Data size ##

The Synthetic Data Generator environment can import up to ~2\.5GB of data\.

## Connectors ##

The following table lists the data sources that you can connect to using Synthetic Data Generator\.

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| Connector                                                                                              | Read Only | Read & Write | Notes                                                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Amazon RDS for MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azrds-mysql.html)                                                                               |           | ✓            | **Replace the data set** option isn't supported for this connection\. |
| [Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azrds-postresql.html)                                                                          |           | ✓            | **Replace the data set** option isn't supported for this connection\. |
| [Amazon Redshift](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-redshift.html)                                                                                    |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Amazon S3](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-amazon-s3.html)                                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Apache Cassandra](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cassandra.html)                                                                                   |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Apache Derby](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-derby.html)                                                                                       |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Apache HDFS (formerly known as "Hortonworks HDFS")](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-hdfs.html) |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Apache Hive](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-hive.html)                                                                                        | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Box](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-box.html)                                                                                                | ✓         | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Cloud Object\-Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cos.html)                                                         |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Cloud Object\-Storage (infrastructure)](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cos-infra.html)                        |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Cloudant](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloudant.html)                                                                                           |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Cloudera Impala](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloudera.html)                                                                                    | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Cognos\-Analytics](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cognos.html)                                                                 | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-datavirt-z.html)                           | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Db2](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2.html)                                                                                                |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Db2 Big SQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-bigsql.html)                                                                                        |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Db2 for i](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2i.html)                                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Db2 for z/OS](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2zos.html)                                                                           |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Db2 on Cloud](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-cloud.html)                                                                                       |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Db2 Warehouse](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-wh.html)                                                                                      |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Dropbox](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-dropbox.html)                                                                                            |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [FTP (remote file system transfer)](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-ftp.html)                                  |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Google BigQuery](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-bigquery.html)                                                                                    |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Google Cloud Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloud-storage.html)                                                                               |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Greenplum](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-greenplum.html)                                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [HTTP](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-http.html)                                                                                               | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-compose-mysql.html)                                                                      |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [IBM Cloud Data Engine](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sqlquery.html)                                                                              | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [IBM Cloud Databases for DataStax](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-datastax.html)                                                                   |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mongodb.html)                                                                    | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-dbase-postgresql.html)                                                                 |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [IBM Watson Query](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-data-virtual.html)                                                                                   | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Informix](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-informix.html)                                                                                           |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Looker](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-looker.html)                                                                                             | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [MariaDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mariadb.html)                                                                                            |           |              |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft Azure Blob Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azureblob.html)                                                                       |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cosmosdb.html)                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azuredls.html)                                                                  |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft Azure File Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azurefs.html)                                                                       |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft Azure SQL Database](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azure-sql.html)                                                                       |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Microsoft SQL Server](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sql-server.html)                                                                               |           | ✓            | SQL pushback isn't supported when Active Directory is enabled\.       |
| [MongoDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mongodb.html)                                                             | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mysql.html)                                                                                              |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Netezza Performance Server](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-puredata.html)                                                                         |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [OData](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-odata.html)                                                                                              |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Oracle](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-oracle.html)                                                                                             |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Planning Analytics (formerly known as "IBM TM1")](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-plananalytics.html)     |           | ✓            | Only the **Replace the data set** option is supported\.               |
| [PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-postgresql.html)                                                                                         |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Presto](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-presto.html)                                                                                             | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Salesforce\.com](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-salesforce.html)                                                                     | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [SAP ASE](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sap-ase.html)                                                                                            |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [SAP IQ](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sap-iq.html)                                                                                             | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [SAP OData](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sapodata.html)                                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Snowflake](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-snowflake.html)                                                                                          |           | ✓            |                                                                       |
| [Tableau](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-tableau.html)                                                                                            | ✓         |              |                                                                       |
| [Teradata](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-teradata.html)                                                                                           |           | ✓            |

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## Data files ##

In addition to using data from remote data sources or integrated databases, you can use data from files\. You can work with data from the following types of files using Synthetic Data Generator\.

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| Connector         | Read Only | Read & Write |
| ----------------- | --------- | ------------ |
| AVRO              | ✓         |              |
| CSV/delimited     |           | ✓            |
| Excel (XLS, XLSX) |           | ✓            |
| JSON              |           | ✓            |
| ORC               |           |              |
| Parquet           |           |              |
| SAS               | ✓         |              |
| SAV               |           | ✓            |
| SHP               |           |              |
| XML               |           | ✓            |

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