> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kinetica.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Load Data

> Ingest data from a variety of data sources

## Topics

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  <Card title="Data Loading Concepts" href="/content/load_data/concepts">
    * [Interfaces](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-concepts-interfaces)
    * [Data Sources](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-concepts-data-sources)
    * [Credentials](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-credentials)
    * [Supported File Types](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-compatible-data-formats)
    * [Loading via SQL](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-loading-sql)
    * [Loading via KiSQL](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-kisql)
    * [Ingest Tuning](/content/load_data/concepts#ingest-tuning)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Loading Data via REST">
    * [/insert/records/json](/content/api/rest/insert_records_json_rest)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Loading Data in SQL" href="/content/sql/load">
    * [Loading Data Snippets](/content/snippets/load-data)
    * [LOAD INTO](/content/sql/load#sql-load-into)
    * [INSERT INTO...SELECT...FROM FILE](/content/sql/load#sql-load-file-client)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Load Data by Source" href="/content/load_data/by_source">
    * [Azure BLOB](/content/load_data/by_source/azure_blob)
    * [GCS](/content/load_data/by_source/gcs)
    * [HDFS](/content/load_data/by_source/hdfs)
    * [JDBC](/content/load_data/by_source/jdbc)
    * [Kafka (Apache)](/content/load_data/by_source/kafka)
    * [Kafka (Confluent)](/content/load_data/by_source/confluent)
    * [KiFS](/content/load_data/by_source/kifs)
    * [Local](/content/load_data/by_source/local)
    * [S3](/content/load_data/by_source/s3)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Data Sources" href="/content/sql/ddl#sql-create-data-source">
    * [CREATE DATA SOURCE](/content/sql/ddl#sql-create-data-source)
    * [CREATE CREDENTIAL](/content/sql/ddl#sql-create-credential)
    * [Create Data Sources Snippets](/content/snippets/create-data-sources)
    * [Create Credential Snippets](/content/snippets/create-credentials)
  </Card>
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## Product Highlights

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  <Card title="High-speed Native Ingest">
    Natively load data with SQL from the server or client-side.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Variety of Data Formats">
    Ingest data in popular formats with Kinetica's built-in type inferencing.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Popular Data Sources">
    Ingest data from a variety of popular data sources like S3, Kafka, and more.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How-To Guides

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  <Card title="Quick Start Guide" icon="book" href="/content/guides/quickstart-guide/index">
    Get started with Kinetica Workbench

    Length: 15 MIN
  </Card>
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## Next Steps

Now that you are familiar with Kinetica's data loading capabilities, here are a few resources to check out next:

* [GAdmin](/content/admin/gadmin/index)
* [SQL](/content/sql/index)
* [Connectors](/content/connectors/index)