ClickHouse/docs/en/engines/table-engines/integrations/s3.md

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# S3 {#table_engines-s3}

This engine provides integration with [Amazon S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) ecosystem. This engine is similar
to the [HDFS](../../../engines/table-engines/special/file.md#table_engines-hdfs) engine, but provides S3-specific features.

## Usage {#usage}

``` sql
ENGINE = S3(path, [aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key,] format, structure, [compression])
```

**Input parameters**

-   `path` — Bucket url with path to file. Supports following wildcards in readonly mode: *, ?, {abc,def} and {N..M} where N, M — numbers, `’abc’, ‘def’ — strings.
-   `format` — The [format](../../../interfaces/formats.md#formats) of the file.
-   `structure` — Structure of the table. Format `'column1_name column1_type, column2_name column2_type, ...'`.
-   `compression` — Parameter is optional, gzip, br, xz, zstd are supported.

**Example:**

**1.** Set up the `s3_engine_table` table:

``` sql
CREATE TABLE s3_engine_table (name String, value UInt32) ENGINE=S3('https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/test-data.csv.gz', 'CSV', 'name String, value UInt32', 'gzip')
```

**2.** Fill file:

``` sql
INSERT INTO s3_engine_table VALUES ('one', 1), ('two', 2), ('three', 3)
```

**3.** Query the data:

``` sql
SELECT * FROM s3_engine_table LIMIT 2
```

``` text
┌─name─┬─value─┐
│ one  │     1 │
│ two  │     2 │
└──────┴───────┘
```

## Implementation Details {#implementation-details}

-   Reads and writes can be parallel
-   Not supported:
    -   `ALTER` and `SELECT...SAMPLE` operations.
    -   Indexes.
    -   Replication.

**Globs in path**

Multiple path components can have globs. For being processed file should exists and matches to the whole path pattern. Listing of files determines during `SELECT` (not at `CREATE` moment).

-   `*` — Substitutes any number of any characters except `/` including empty string.
-   `?` — Substitutes any single character.
-   `{some_string,another_string,yet_another_one}` — Substitutes any of strings `'some_string', 'another_string', 'yet_another_one'`.
-   `{N..M}` — Substitutes any number in range from N to M including both borders.

Constructions with `{}` are similar to the [remote](../../../sql-reference/table-functions/remote.md) table function.

**Example**

1. Suppose we have several files in TSV format with the following URIs on HDFS:

-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/some_prefix/some_file_1.csv’
-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/some_prefix/some_file_2.csv’
-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/some_prefix/some_file_3.csv’
-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/another_prefix/some_file_1.csv’
-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/another_prefix/some_file_2.csv’
-   ‘https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/another_prefix/some_file_3.csv’

2. There are several ways to make a table consisting of all six files:

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``` sql
CREATE TABLE table_with_range (name String, value UInt32) ENGINE = S3('https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/{some,another}_prefix/some_file_{1..3}', 'CSV')
```

3. Another way:

``` sql
CREATE TABLE table_with_question_mark (name String, value UInt32) ENGINE = S3('https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/{some,another}_prefix/some_file_?', 'CSV')
```

4. Table consists of all the files in both directories (all files should satisfy format and schema described in query):

``` sql
CREATE TABLE table_with_asterisk (name String, value UInt32) ENGINE = S3('https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/{some,another}_prefix/*', 'CSV')
```

!!! warning "Warning"
    If the listing of files contains number ranges with leading zeros, use the construction with braces for each digit separately or use `?`.

**Example**

Create table with files named `file-000.csv`, `file-001.csv`, … , `file-999.csv`:

``` sql
CREATE TABLE big_table (name String, value UInt32) ENGINE = S3('https://storage.yandexcloud.net/my-test-bucket-768/big_prefix/file-{0..9}{0..9}{0..9}.csv', 'CSV')
```

## Virtual Columns {#virtual-columns}

-   `_path` — Path to the file.
-   `_file` — Name of the file.

## S3-related settings {#settings}

The following settings can be set before query execution or placed into configuration file.

-   `s3_max_single_part_upload_size` — Default value is `64Mb`. The maximum size of object to upload using singlepart upload to S3.
-   `s3_min_upload_part_size` — Default value is `512Mb`. The minimum size of part to upload during multipart upload to [S3 Multipart upload](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/uploadobjusingmpu.html).
-   `s3_max_redirects` — Default value is `10`. Max number of S3 redirects hops allowed.

**See Also**

-   [Virtual columns](../../../engines/table-engines/index.md#table_engines-virtual_columns)

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