Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics connector overview

APPLIES TO: Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics

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Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics pipelines support the following data stores and formats via Copy, Data Flow, Look up, Get Metadata, and Delete activities. Click each data store to learn the supported capabilities and the corresponding configurations in details.

Supported data stores

Category	Data store	Copy activity (source/sink)	Mapping Data Flow (source/sink)	Lookup Activity	Get Metadata Activity/Validation Activity	Delete Activity	Managed private endpoint
Azure	Azure Blob Storage	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓	✓	✓Exclude storage account V1
	Azure Cognitive Search Index	−/✓					✓
	Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓			✓
	Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓			✓
	Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB	✓/✓					✓
	Azure Data Explorer	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓		✓
	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓	✓
	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
	Azure Database for MariaDB	✓/−		✓			✓
	Azure Database for MySQL	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓			✓
	Azure Database for PostgreSQL	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓			✓
	Azure Databricks Delta Lake	✓/✓	✓/✓ Use delta format	✓
	Azure Files	✓/✓		✓	✓	✓	✓Exclude storage account V1
	Azure SQL Database	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓		✓
	Azure SQL Managed Instance	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓		✓
	Azure Synapse Analytics	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓		✓
	Azure Table Storage	✓/✓		✓			✓Exclude storage account V1
Database	Amazon RDS for Oracle	✓/−		✓
	Amazon RDS for SQL Server	✓/−		✓	✓
	Amazon Redshift	✓/−		✓
	DB2	✓/−		✓
	Drill	✓/−		✓
	Google BigQuery	✓/−		✓
	Greenplum	✓/−		✓
	HBase	✓/−		✓
	Hive	✓/−	✓/−	✓
	Apache Impala	✓/−		✓
	Informix	✓/✓		✓
	MariaDB	✓/−		✓
	Microsoft Access	✓/✓		✓
	MySQL	✓/−		✓
	Netezza	✓/−		✓
	Oracle	✓/✓		✓
	Phoenix	✓/−		✓
	PostgreSQL	✓/−		✓
	Presto	✓/−		✓
	SAP Business Warehouse Open Hub	✓/−		✓
	SAP Business Warehouse via MDX	✓/−		✓
	SAP HANA	✓/✓		✓
	SAP Table	✓/−		✓
	Snowflake	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓
	Spark	✓/−		✓
	SQL Server	✓/✓	✓/✓ Use Managed VNET	✓	✓
	Sybase	✓/−		✓
	Teradata	✓/−		✓
	Vertica	✓/−		✓
NoSQL	Cassandra	✓/−		✓
	Couchbase (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	MongoDB	✓/✓
	MongoDB Atlas	✓/✓
File	Amazon S3	✓/−	✓/✓	✓	✓	✓
	Amazon S3 Compatible Storage	✓/−		✓	✓	✓
	File System	✓/✓		✓	✓	✓
	FTP	✓/−		✓	✓	✓
	Google Cloud Storage	✓/−		✓	✓	✓
	HDFS	✓/−		✓		✓
	Oracle Cloud Storage	✓/−		✓	✓	✓
	SFTP	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓	✓
Generic protocol	Generic HTTP	✓/−		✓
	Generic OData	✓/−		✓
	Generic ODBC	✓/✓		✓
	Generic REST	✓/✓	✓/✓
Microsoft Fabric	Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse	✓/✓	✓/✓
	Microsoft Fabric Warehouse	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓	✓		✓
Services and apps	Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Deprecated)
	Appfigures (Preview)		✓/-
	Asana (Preview)		✓/−
	Concur (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	data.world (Preview)		✓/−
	Dataverse	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓
	Dynamics 365	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓
	Dynamics AX	✓/−		✓
	Dynamics CRM	✓/✓	✓/✓	✓
	GitHub		For Common Data Model entity reference
	Google AdWords	✓/−		✓
	Google Sheets (Preview)		✓/−
	HubSpot	✓/−		✓
	Jira	✓/−		✓
	Magento (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Marketo (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Microsoft 365	✓/−	✓/−	✓
	Oracle Eloqua (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Oracle Responsys (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Oracle Service Cloud (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	PayPal (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Quickbase (Preview)		✓/−
	QuickBooks (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Salesforce	✓/✓		✓
	Salesforce Service Cloud	✓/✓		✓
	Salesforce Marketing Cloud	✓/−		✓
	SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C)	✓/✓		✓
	SAP ECC	✓/−		✓
	ServiceNow	✓/−		✓
	SharePoint Online List	✓/−		✓
	Shopify (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	Smartsheet (Preview)		✓/−
	Square (Preview)	✓/−		✓
	TeamDesk (Preview)		✓/−
	Twilio (Preview)		✓/−
	Web Table (HTML table)	✓/−		✓
	Xero	✓/−		✓
	Zendesk (Preview)		✓/−
	Zoho (Preview)	✓/−		✓

Note

Connectors marked Preview are available to try, but are not recommended for production workloads. Certain features might not be supported or might have constrained capabilities.

Integrate with more data stores

Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines can reach broader set of data stores than the list mentioned above. If you need to move data to/from a data store that is not in the service built-in connector list, here are some extensible options:

• For database and data warehouse, usually you can find a corresponding ODBC driver, with which you can use generic ODBC connector.
• For SaaS applications:
  • If it provides RESTful APIs, you can use generic REST connector.
  • If it has OData feed, you can use generic OData connector.
  • If it provides SOAP APIs, you can use generic HTTP connector.
  • If it has ODBC driver, you can use generic ODBC connector.
• For others, check if you can load data to or expose data as any supported data stores, e.g. Azure Blob/File/FTP/SFTP/etc, then let the service pick up from there. You can invoke custom data loading mechanism via Azure Function, Custom activity, Databricks/HDInsight, Web activity, etc.

Supported file formats

The following file formats are supported. Refer to each article for format-based settings.

• Avro format
• Binary format
• Common Data Model format
• Delimited text format
• Delta format
• Excel format
• Iceberg format
• JSON format
• ORC format
• Parquet format
• XML format

Related content

• Copy activity
• Mapping Data Flow
• Lookup Activity
• Get Metadata Activity
• Delete Activity