How to load data from Commercetools to Clickhouse

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Commercetools

Commercetools is a cloud-based headless commerce platform that provides APIs to power e-commerce sales and similar functions for large businesses. Both the company and platform are called Commercetools. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Berlin, Germany; Jena, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; London, England and etc. Through its investor REWE Group, it is associated with the omnichannel order fulfillment software solutions providers fulfillmenttools and the payment transactions provider paymenttools. Its clients include Audi, Bang & Olufsen, Carhartt and Nuts.com.

Clickhouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries. Also offered as a secure and scalable service in the cloud, ClickHouse Cloud allows anyone to effortlessly take advantage of efficient real time analytical processing​.

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TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Commercetools as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up Clickhouse as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Commercetools

Commercetools is a cloud-based headless commerce platform that provides APIs to power e-commerce sales and similar functions for large businesses. Both the company and platform are called Commercetools. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Berlin, Germany; Jena, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; London, England and etc. Through its investor REWE Group, it is associated with the omnichannel order fulfillment software solutions providers fulfillmenttools and the payment transactions provider paymenttools. Its clients include Audi, Bang & Olufsen, Carhartt and Nuts.com.

What is Clickhouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries. Also offered as a secure and scalable service in the cloud, ClickHouse Cloud allows anyone to effortlessly take advantage of efficient real time analytical processing​.

Integrate Commercetools with Clickhouse in minutes

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Prerequisites

  1. A Commercetools account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A Clickhouse account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Commercetools and Clickhouse, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Commercetools to Clickhouse, it extracts data from Commercetools using the source connector, converts it into a format Clickhouse can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into Clickhouse via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Commercetools data for advanced analytics and insights within Clickhouse, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Commercetools as a source connector

1. First, you need to obtain your Commercetools credentials, which include the client ID, client secret, project key, and API URL. You can find these credentials in your Commercetools account under the "API Clients" section.  
2. Once you have your Commercetools credentials, go to the Airbyte dashboard and click on "Sources" on the left-hand side menu.  
3. Click on the "Commercetools" source connector and then click on "Create new connection."  
4. In the "Connection Configuration" page, enter your Commercetools credentials in the appropriate fields. Make sure to enter the correct API URL for your Commercetools account.  
5. Click on "Test Connection" to ensure that Airbyte can connect to your Commercetools account.  
6. If the connection is successful, click on "Save & Continue."  
7. In the "Sync Configuration" page, you can configure how often you want Airbyte to sync data from your Commercetools account. You can also choose which data you want to sync.  
8. Once you have configured the sync settings, click on "Save & Continue."  
9. Finally, click on "Create Connection" to create the Commercetools source connector on Airbyte.  
10. You can now use the Commercetools source connector to extract data from your Commercetools account and load it into your destination data warehouse or data lake.

Step 2: Set up Clickhouse as a destination connector

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Commercetools data to Clickhouse

Once you've successfully connected Commercetools as a data source and Clickhouse as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Commercetools from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose Clickhouse from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Commercetools objects you want to import data from towards Clickhouse. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Commercetools to Clickhouse according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your Clickhouse data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Commercetools data.

Use Cases to transfer your Commercetools data to Clickhouse

Integrating data from Commercetools to Clickhouse provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: Clickhouse’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Commercetools data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Commercetools alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Commercetools, syncing to Clickhouse allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Commercetools has limits on historical data. Syncing data to Clickhouse allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: Clickhouse provides robust data security features. Syncing Commercetools data to Clickhouse ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: Clickhouse can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Commercetools data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Commercetools data in Clickhouse, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Commercetools provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to Clickhouse, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Commercetools table that needs to be converted to a Clickhouse table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Commercetools account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure Clickhouse as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Commercetools to Clickhouse after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

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How to load data from Commercetools to Clickhouse

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Commercetools data into Clickhouse within minutes.

TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Commercetools as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up Clickhouse as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Commercetools

Commercetools is a cloud-based headless commerce platform that provides APIs to power e-commerce sales and similar functions for large businesses. Both the company and platform are called Commercetools. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Berlin, Germany; Jena, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; London, England and etc. Through its investor REWE Group, it is associated with the omnichannel order fulfillment software solutions providers fulfillmenttools and the payment transactions provider paymenttools. Its clients include Audi, Bang & Olufsen, Carhartt and Nuts.com.

What is Clickhouse

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries. Also offered as a secure and scalable service in the cloud, ClickHouse Cloud allows anyone to effortlessly take advantage of efficient real time analytical processing​.

Integrate Commercetools with Clickhouse in minutes

Try for free now

Prerequisites

  1. A Commercetools account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A Clickhouse account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Commercetools and Clickhouse, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Commercetools to Clickhouse, it extracts data from Commercetools using the source connector, converts it into a format Clickhouse can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into Clickhouse via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Commercetools data for advanced analytics and insights within Clickhouse, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Commercetools as a source connector

1. First, you need to obtain your Commercetools credentials, which include the client ID, client secret, project key, and API URL. You can find these credentials in your Commercetools account under the "API Clients" section.  
2. Once you have your Commercetools credentials, go to the Airbyte dashboard and click on "Sources" on the left-hand side menu.  
3. Click on the "Commercetools" source connector and then click on "Create new connection."  
4. In the "Connection Configuration" page, enter your Commercetools credentials in the appropriate fields. Make sure to enter the correct API URL for your Commercetools account.  
5. Click on "Test Connection" to ensure that Airbyte can connect to your Commercetools account.  
6. If the connection is successful, click on "Save & Continue."  
7. In the "Sync Configuration" page, you can configure how often you want Airbyte to sync data from your Commercetools account. You can also choose which data you want to sync.  
8. Once you have configured the sync settings, click on "Save & Continue."  
9. Finally, click on "Create Connection" to create the Commercetools source connector on Airbyte.  
10. You can now use the Commercetools source connector to extract data from your Commercetools account and load it into your destination data warehouse or data lake.

Step 2: Set up Clickhouse as a destination connector

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Commercetools data to Clickhouse

Once you've successfully connected Commercetools as a data source and Clickhouse as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Commercetools from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose Clickhouse from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Commercetools objects you want to import data from towards Clickhouse. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Commercetools to Clickhouse according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your Clickhouse data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Commercetools data.

Use Cases to transfer your Commercetools data to Clickhouse

Integrating data from Commercetools to Clickhouse provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: Clickhouse’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Commercetools data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Commercetools alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Commercetools, syncing to Clickhouse allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Commercetools has limits on historical data. Syncing data to Clickhouse allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: Clickhouse provides robust data security features. Syncing Commercetools data to Clickhouse ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: Clickhouse can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Commercetools data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Commercetools data in Clickhouse, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Commercetools provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to Clickhouse, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Commercetools table that needs to be converted to a Clickhouse table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Commercetools account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure Clickhouse as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Commercetools to Clickhouse after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Commercetools?

Commercetools's API provides access to a wide range of data related to e-commerce and retail operations. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Commercetools's API:  

1. Product data: This includes information about products such as name, description, price, availability, and images.  
2. Customer data: This includes information about customers such as name, email address, shipping address, and order history.  
3. Order data: This includes information about orders such as order number, customer information, product information, and shipping details.  
4. Inventory data: This includes information about inventory levels, stock availability, and stock locations.  
5. Payment data: This includes information about payment methods, payment status, and transaction details.  
6. Shipping data: This includes information about shipping methods, shipping rates, and delivery status.  
7. Tax data: This includes information about tax rates, tax rules, and tax exemptions.  
8. Analytics data: This includes information about website traffic, customer behavior, and sales performance.  

Overall, Commercetools's API provides access to a comprehensive set of data that can help businesses optimize their e-commerce and retail operations.

What data can you transfer to Clickhouse?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to Clickhouse. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Commercetools to Clickhouse?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Commercetools to Clickhouse include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Commercetools and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Clickhouse and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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Take the first step towards extensible data movement infrastructure that will give a ton of time back to your data team. 
Get started with Airbyte for free
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Talk to a data infrastructure expert
Get a free consultation with an Airbyte expert to significantly improve your data movement infrastructure. 
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