Wikipedia API SQL Driver

Invantive UniversalSQL is the fastest, easiest and most reliable way to exchange data with the Wikipedia API.

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Wikipedia is online software for encyclopedical knowledge. Wikipedia handles both the collection, sharing and maintenance of large volumes of encyclopedical knowledge across a wide range of languages.

The Wikipedia driver covers 2 tables and 35 columns.

Wikipedia API Clients

Invantive UniversalSQL is available on many user interfaces ("clients" in traditional server-client paradigma). All Invantive UniversalSQL statements can be exchanged with a close to 100% compatibility across all clients and operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android).

The clients include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Query, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook. Web-based clients include Invantive Cloud, Invantive Bridge Online as OData proxy, Invantive App Online for interactive apps, Online SQL Editor for query execution and Invantive Data Access Point as extended proxy.

The <link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="weblink" href="https://cloud.invantive.com/wikipedia" target="_blank" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Wikipedia Power BI connector</link> is based on the Invantive UniversalSQL driver for Wikipedia, completed by a high-performance OData connector which works straight on Power BI without any add-on. The OData protocol is always version 4, independent whether the backing platform uses OData, SOAP or another protocol.

For technical users there are command-line editions of Invantive Data Hub running on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux. Invantive Data Hub is also often used for enterprise server applications such as ETL. High-volume replication of data taken from the Wikipedia API into traditional databases such as SQL Server (on-premises and Azure), MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle is possible using <link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="weblink" href="https://data-replicator.cloud/" target="_blank" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Invantive Data Replicator</link>. Invantive Data Replicator automatically creates and maintains Wikipedia datawarehouses, possibly in combination with data from over 75 other (cloud) platforms. Invantive Data Replicator supports data volumes up to over 1 TB and over 5.000 companies. The on-premise edition of Invantive Bridge offers an Wikipedia ADO.net provider.

Finally, online web apps can be build for Wikipedia using App Online of <link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="weblink" href="https://cloud.invantive.com/wikipedia" target="_blank" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Invantive Cloud</link>.

Monitor API Calls

When a query or DML-statement has been executed on Invantive UniversalSQL a developer can evaluate the actual calls made to the Wikipedia API using a query on sessionios@DataDictionary. As an alternative, extensive request and response logging can be enabled by setting log-native-calls-to-disk to true. In the %USERPROFILE%\Invantive\NativeLog folder Invantive UniversalSQL will create log files per Wikipedia API request and response.

Specificaties

The SQL driver for Wikipedia does not support partitioning. Define one data container in a database for each company in Wikipedia to enable parallel access for data from multiple companies.

Een inleiding in de concepten van Invantive UniversalSQL zoals databases, data containers en partitionering is te vinden in de <link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="weblink" href="https://go.invantive.com/sqlgrammar" target="_blank" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Invantive UniversalSQL grammatica</link>.

The configuration can be changed using various attributes during log on and use. A full list of configuration options is listed in the driver attributes.

The catalog name is used to compose the full qualified name of an object like a table or view. The schema name is used to compose the full qualified name of an object like a table or view. On Wikipedia the comparison of two texts is case sensitive by default.

Changes and bug fixes on the Wikipedia SQL driver can be found in the release notes. There is currently no specific section on the Invantive forums for Wikipedia. Please reach out to other users of Wikipedia by leaving a question or contact request.

Driver code for use in settings.xml: Wikipedia

Alias: wikipedia

Aanbevolen alias: wka

Status: Non-production

19-12-2022 16:43 Version 22.1.113-BETA+3734