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Creates a data sink, which contains the destination information for a data sink that is external to the database.

Input Parameter Description

string
Name of the data sink to be created.
string
Destination for the output data in format ‘storage_provider_type://path[:port]’.Supported storage provider types are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘hdfs’, ‘http’, ‘https’, ‘jdbc’, ‘kafka’, and ‘s3’.
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
String
Empty if success or an error message
String
‘create_datasink_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
String
Empty string
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /create/datasink endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.