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# createDatasink

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkResponse">CreateDatasinkResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createDatasink </td>
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      <p>Creates a <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>, which contains the destination information for a data sink that is external to the database. </p>

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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L18119">18119</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkResponse">CreateDatasinkResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createDatasink </td>
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      <p>Creates a <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>, which contains the destination information for a data sink that is external to the database. </p>

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              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the data sink to be created.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">destination</td>
              <td>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'.</td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ad6fb92249fb76f0842e4383517596a73">CONNECTION\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#af758b5df52f6d452ee25a5f0158fb5ff">WAIT\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for waiting for a response from this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ab2a8f58ff62e97936a700daa72c1e4a6">CREDENTIAL</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2f71abc93ea4d1be96bf81b33b38f99e">S3\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a581ad2bcc2ba983143a5c8c6b27e6dc6">S3\_REGION</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 region where the given bucket is located. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0e2a5f64190e2bc4dd1bd5c2b4847789">S3\_VERIFY\_SSL</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Connect without verifying the SSL connection; for testing purposes, bypassing TLS errors, self-signed certificates, etc. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#acadb1839b621b0ed21a29ff918c003d1">S3\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 sink. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a9293d924b39f8157c38f1d06f4a5a940">S3\_AWS\_ROLE\_ARN</a>: Amazon IAM Role ARN which has required S3 permissions that can be assumed for the given S3 IAM user. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ae52b6a608afb50e03ae59870b64711ff">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_ALGORITHM</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#afd40c5ed2c1012c31340ddbf536002dc">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_KEY</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0a9ff9c85bbeea1ced266b290be5bd66">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_TYPE</a>: Server side encryption type. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#abe5a4f87f5c60ae80bfc538659b290f0">S3\_KMS\_KEY\_ID</a>: KMS key. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#addd2aa4c610809f6e28223d09a303d81">HDFS\_KERBEROS\_KEYTAB</a>: Kerberos keytab file location for the given HDFS user. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#aaf391421fb3a515159048b9f1309c539">HDFS\_DELEGATION\_TOKEN</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#af897911120d7dc4005e075a0c87bdcc7">HDFS\_USE\_KERBEROS</a>: Use kerberos authentication for the given HDFS cluster. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0e227a4006375ff196e8c3e6db21e715">AZURE\_STORAGE\_ACCOUNT\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data sink, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a656f2daffd43a60d6f9227e0f5b9a0a8">AZURE\_CONTAINER\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2b8c912f98634fd55889e687b534b9ec">AZURE\_TENANT\_ID</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a586b2977a006f69e1e1c7e6627112a6b">AZURE\_SAS\_TOKEN</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8949c5dcb6137559d77c04827936faf2">AZURE\_OAUTH\_TOKEN</a>: Oauth token to access given storage container. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#acaf59498946259e5414bb0ffcbb6d15a">AZURE\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Azure source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a6a23b295d4b56b83c73b1a26dcf0d358">GCS\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a1e0ed51a9312a9d86f3342f37d1c00a9">GCS\_PROJECT\_ID</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2dd1c7b2339ccf924871ed1beca723cc">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ab587dd2781dd7bf97642d114b4b5c6d0">JDBC\_DRIVER\_JAR\_PATH</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#afdc6b1b3149d09cbbdac298cd2558770">JDBC\_DRIVER\_CLASS\_NAME</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a39449450586af1e825e3eb0b17cf0d57">KAFKA\_TOPIC\_NAME</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to publish to if <span className="em">destination</span> is a Kafka broker. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8f63fa07c7799cf118667adc880bb18d">MAX\_BATCH\_SIZE</a>: Maximum number of records per notification message. The default value is '1'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a3df29d9c4108c72339d2128ebda4d7be">MAX\_MESSAGE\_SIZE</a>: Maximum size in bytes of each notification message. The default value is '1000000'. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a289bbef1abb7d2c9341ff4f4646767c7">JSON\_FORMAT</a>: The desired format of JSON encoded notifications message. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a7559a91975497c9061c19cd53710358f">FLAT</a>: A single record is returned per message. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a059dc41e924411e4b521973e4773be9f">NESTED</a>: <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/namespacekinetica_1_1Records">Records</a> are returned as an array per message. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a7559a91975497c9061c19cd53710358f">FLAT</a>.
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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8a56a90636fd46224a69734c5bd5818d">SKIP\_VALIDATION</a>: Bypass validation of connection to this data sink. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L18536">18536</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Creates a <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>, which contains the destination information for a data sink that is external to the database. </p>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L18136">18136</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>(async)</p>

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        <div className="dt">Parameters</div>

        <div className="dd">
          <table className="params">
            <tr>
              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the data sink to be created.</td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
              <td className="paramname">destination</td>
              <td>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'.</td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
              <td className="paramname">options</td>

              <td>
                Optional parameters.

                <ul>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ad6fb92249fb76f0842e4383517596a73">CONNECTION\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#af758b5df52f6d452ee25a5f0158fb5ff">WAIT\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for waiting for a response from this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ab2a8f58ff62e97936a700daa72c1e4a6">CREDENTIAL</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2f71abc93ea4d1be96bf81b33b38f99e">S3\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a581ad2bcc2ba983143a5c8c6b27e6dc6">S3\_REGION</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 region where the given bucket is located. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0e2a5f64190e2bc4dd1bd5c2b4847789">S3\_VERIFY\_SSL</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Connect without verifying the SSL connection; for testing purposes, bypassing TLS errors, self-signed certificates, etc. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#acadb1839b621b0ed21a29ff918c003d1">S3\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 sink. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a9293d924b39f8157c38f1d06f4a5a940">S3\_AWS\_ROLE\_ARN</a>: Amazon IAM Role ARN which has required S3 permissions that can be assumed for the given S3 IAM user. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ae52b6a608afb50e03ae59870b64711ff">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_ALGORITHM</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#afd40c5ed2c1012c31340ddbf536002dc">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_KEY</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0a9ff9c85bbeea1ced266b290be5bd66">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_TYPE</a>: Server side encryption type. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#abe5a4f87f5c60ae80bfc538659b290f0">S3\_KMS\_KEY\_ID</a>: KMS key. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#addd2aa4c610809f6e28223d09a303d81">HDFS\_KERBEROS\_KEYTAB</a>: Kerberos keytab file location for the given HDFS user. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#aaf391421fb3a515159048b9f1309c539">HDFS\_DELEGATION\_TOKEN</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#af897911120d7dc4005e075a0c87bdcc7">HDFS\_USE\_KERBEROS</a>: Use kerberos authentication for the given HDFS cluster. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a0e227a4006375ff196e8c3e6db21e715">AZURE\_STORAGE\_ACCOUNT\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data sink, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a656f2daffd43a60d6f9227e0f5b9a0a8">AZURE\_CONTAINER\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2b8c912f98634fd55889e687b534b9ec">AZURE\_TENANT\_ID</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a586b2977a006f69e1e1c7e6627112a6b">AZURE\_SAS\_TOKEN</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8949c5dcb6137559d77c04827936faf2">AZURE\_OAUTH\_TOKEN</a>: Oauth token to access given storage container. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#acaf59498946259e5414bb0ffcbb6d15a">AZURE\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Azure source. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a6a23b295d4b56b83c73b1a26dcf0d358">GCS\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a1e0ed51a9312a9d86f3342f37d1c00a9">GCS\_PROJECT\_ID</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a2dd1c7b2339ccf924871ed1beca723cc">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ab587dd2781dd7bf97642d114b4b5c6d0">JDBC\_DRIVER\_JAR\_PATH</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#afdc6b1b3149d09cbbdac298cd2558770">JDBC\_DRIVER\_CLASS\_NAME</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a39449450586af1e825e3eb0b17cf0d57">KAFKA\_TOPIC\_NAME</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to publish to if <span className="em">destination</span> is a Kafka broker. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8f63fa07c7799cf118667adc880bb18d">MAX\_BATCH\_SIZE</a>: Maximum number of records per notification message. The default value is '1'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a3df29d9c4108c72339d2128ebda4d7be">MAX\_MESSAGE\_SIZE</a>: Maximum size in bytes of each notification message. The default value is '1000000'. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a289bbef1abb7d2c9341ff4f4646767c7">JSON\_FORMAT</a>: The desired format of JSON encoded notifications message. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a7559a91975497c9061c19cd53710358f">FLAT</a>: A single record is returned per message. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a059dc41e924411e4b521973e4773be9f">NESTED</a>: <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/namespacekinetica_1_1Records">Records</a> are returned as an array per message. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a7559a91975497c9061c19cd53710358f">FLAT</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8217cbca85ce7ac44e81ba632db86ada">USE\_MANAGED\_CREDENTIALS</a>: When no credentials are supplied, we use anonymous access by default. If this is set, we will use cloud provider user settings. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac810bdc904485a51740dd04d81a23505">USE\_HTTPS</a>: Use HTTPS to connect to datasink if true, otherwise use HTTP. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a8a56a90636fd46224a69734c5bd5818d">SKIP\_VALIDATION</a>: Bypass validation of connection to this data sink. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#a91e6ec133dfd6bd228cca5577ab5248f">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateDatasinkRequest_1_1Options#ac100e794519b26bea2dafb9fd45281db">FALSE</a>.
                  </li>
                </ul>

                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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            <tr>
              <td className="paramname">cancellationToken</td>
              <td>Cancellation token to cancel the operation.</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
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        <div className="dt">Returns</div>
        <div className="dd">Task that returns the response object containing the result of the operation.</div>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L18937">18937</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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