Creating synthetic data from imported data
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. 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) ✓ 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. Connector Read Only Read & Write AVRO ✓ CSV/delimited ✓ Excel (XLS, XLSX) ✓ JSON ✓ ORC Parquet SAS ✓ SAV ✓ SHP XML ✓