This documentation is for an older version of HVR.
Capabilities for Redshift
This section lists the Capabilities of HVR when using 'Redshift'. For more information about the pre-requisites, access privileges, and other configuration requirements, see Requirements for Redshift.
Capture
HVR does not support Capture changes from location on Redshift.
Hub Database
HVR does not support Hub database on Redshift.
Integrate
HVR supports the following capabilities on Redshift:
- Integrate changes into location (Redshift version 1.0).
- Integrate with /Burst (Redshift version 1.0).
- Integrate with /BurstCommitFrequency (Redshift version 1.0).
- Continuous integration (Integrate without /Burst) (Redshift version 1.0).
- Action Transform /SoftDelete (Redshift version 1.0).
- Bulk load requires a staging area (LocationProperties /StagingDirectoryHvr) (Redshift version 1.0).
- Creation and update of HVR state tables (Redshift version 1.0).
HVR does not support the following capabilities on Redshift:
- Action TableProperties with /DuplicateRows for continuous integration.
- Continuous Integrate with /OnErrorSaveFailed (without /Burst).
- Disable/enable database triggers during Integrate (/NoTriggerFiring).
- Integrate with /DbProc.
Bi-directional Replication
HVR does not support Bi-directional Replication on Redshift.
Refresh and Compare
HVR supports the following capabilities on Redshift:
- Hvrrefresh or Hvrcompare from source location (Redshift version 1.0).
- Hvrrefresh into target location (Redshift version 1.0).
- Row-wise Hvrrefresh into target location (option -g) (Redshift version 1.0).
Other Capabilities
HVR supports the following capabilities on Redshift:
- Use distribution key for parallelizing changes within a table (ColumnProperties /DistributionKey) (Redshift version 1.0).
- International table and column names where DBMS is not configured with UTF-8 encoding (Redshift version 1.0).
- Treat DBMS table names and columns as case sensitive if configured (action LocationProperties /CaseSensitiveNames defined) (Redshift version 1.0, since HVR 5.6.5/1).
HVR does not support the following capabilities on Redshift:
- Lossless binary float datatypes. No dataloss when transporting float values (because base 2 fractions are never converted to base 10).