Getting Started with Azure AirMettle Select

This documentation provides an overview of the key components of Azure AirMettle Select, including the Admin API, Metadata Generation API, and the command-line tool for querying.

Components

Admin API

The Admin API allows you to manage your Azure AirMettle Select resources programmatically, including creating and managing storage accounts, viewing and updating your subscription details, and more.

Metadata Generation/Prepare API

To speed up queries, Azure AirMettle Select generates small sidecar files for blobs in your storage accounts. These are stored alongside your data in the same container and contain enough information to allow Azure AirMettle Select to read and process the data in parallel.

You can use the Metadata Generation/Prepare API on-demand to selectively generate these sidecars.

Query API and Command-line Tool

Run queries using Azure AirMettle Select’s command-line tool interactively or in a pipeline.

After subscribing to your Azure AirMettle Select plan, you’ll be able to access these services using your Subscription ID and API key.

Workflow

The typical workflow for using Azure AirMettle Select is as follows:

Use the Admin API to link one or more Azure Blob storage accounts to your subscription. You only need to do this once per account.
Use the Metadata Generation API to generate sidecars for blobs you want to query in your storage accounts.
Use the Query CLI to run SQL queries against your blobs.