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# Built-in I/O Transforms

This table contains the currently available I/O transforms.

Consult the [Programming Guide I/O section]({{site.baseurl }}/documentation/programming-guide#pipeline-io) for general usage instructions, and see the javadoc/pydoc for the particular I/O transforms.


<table class="table table-bordered">
<tr>
  <th>Language</th>
  <th>File-based</th>
  <th>Messaging</th>
  <th>Database</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Java</td>
  <td>
    <p>Beam Java supports Apache HDFS, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and local filesystems.</p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/FileIO.java">FileIO</a> (general-purpose reading, writing, and matching of files)</p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/AvroIO.java">AvroIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/TextIO.java">TextIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/TFRecordIO.java">TFRecordIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/xml/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/xml/XmlIO.java">XmlIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/tika/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/tika/TikaIO.java">TikaIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/parquet">ParquetIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/thrift/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/thrift/ThriftIO.java">ThriftIO</a></p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/kinesis">Amazon Kinesis</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/amqp">AMQP</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/kafka">Apache Kafka</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/pubsub">Google Cloud Pub/Sub</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/jms">JMS</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/mqtt">MQTT</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/rabbitmq/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/rabbitmq/RabbitMqIO.java">RabbitMqIO</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/amazon-web-services/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/aws/sqs/SqsIO.java">SqsIO</a></p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/cassandra">Apache Cassandra</a></p>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/hadoop/">Apache Hadoop Input/Output Format</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/hbase">Apache HBase</a></p>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/hcatalog">Apache Hive (HCatalog)</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/kudu">Apache Kudu</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/solr">Apache Solr</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch">Elasticsearch (v2.x, v5.x, v6.x)</a></p>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/google-bigquery/">Google BigQuery</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigtable">Google Cloud Bigtable</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/datastore">Google Cloud Datastore</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/spanner">Google Cloud Spanner</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/jdbc">JDBC</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/mongodb">MongoDB</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/java/io/redis">Redis</a></p>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Python/Batch</td>
  <td>
    <p>Beam Python supports Apache HDFS, Google Cloud Storage, and local filesystems.</p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/avroio.py">avroio</a></p>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/parquet">parquetio.py</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py">textio</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/tfrecordio.py">tfrecordio</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/vcfio.py">vcfio</a></p>
  </td>
  <td>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/io/built-in/google-bigquery/">Google BigQuery</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/datastore">Google Cloud Datastore</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigtableio.py">Google Cloud Bigtable</a> (Write)</p>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/mongodbio.py">MongoDB</a></p>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Python/Streaming</td>
  <td>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/pubsub.py">Google Cloud Pub/Sub</a></p>
  </td>
  <td>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/bigquery.py">Google BigQuery (sink only)</a></p>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

# In-Progress I/O Transforms

This table contains I/O transforms that are currently planned or in-progress. Status information can be found on the JIRA issue, or on the GitHub PR linked to by the JIRA issue (if there is one).

<table class="table table-bordered">
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th><th>Language</th><th>JIRA</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Apache DistributedLog</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-607">BEAM-607</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Apache Kafka</td><td>Python</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3788">BEAM-3788</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Apache Sqoop</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-67">BEAM-67</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Couchbase</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1893">BEAM-1893</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>InfluxDB</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2546">BEAM-2546</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Memcached</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1678">BEAM-1678</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Neo4j</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1857">BEAM-1857</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>RestIO</td><td>Java</td>
    <td><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1946">BEAM-1946</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
