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Features
Some of the features of the Kinesis connector:
- Support for incremental and full crawling (with limitations, see below)
- Configurable starting point for data retrieval. Starting position can be specified using timestamps or sequence numbers
- Is search engine independent. The content retrieved can be published by Aspire to any search engine
- Runs from any machine that has access to Amazon Kinesis
Content Retrieved
The Kinesis connector publishes all the data available with each record:
- Data (as text)
- Approximate arrival timestamp
- Sequence number
- Shard ID
- Partition key
Limitations
Due to API limitations and the nature of Kinesis Data Streams itself, the Kinesis connector has the following limitations:
- Due to the streaming nature of the data, crawls (whether full or incremental) run continuously without end, unless paused/stopped or when the shards that were picked up at the start of the crawl are closed due to a reshard operation.
- Cannot adapt to resharding. To get all the data you will have to restart the crawl after a reshard operation.
- Cannot keep track of expired (trimmed) messages. This means that the connector is unable to post update or delete operations to publishers.