Structural differences and limitations with the Spark SDK

Required license: Professional or Enterprise license.

Not available on Tonic Structural Cloud.

No data science mode

Spark SDK is only available for data generation workspaces. You cannot use Spark SDK in data science mode workspaces.

No workspace inheritance

Spark SDK workspaces do not support workspace inheritance.

Table mode limitations

You can only assign the De-Identify or Truncate table modes.

For Truncate mode, the table is ignored completely. The table does not exist in the destination database.

Generator limitations

Spark SDK workspaces only support the following generators:

  • Address

  • Categorical

  • Character Scramble

  • Company Name

  • Constant

  • Continuous

  • Custom Categorical

  • Date Truncation

  • Email

  • HIPAA Address

  • Integer Key

  • JSON Mask

  • MAC Address

  • Name

  • Noise Generator

  • Null

  • Random Hash

  • Random Integer

  • Random UUID

  • Regex Mask

  • SSN

  • Struct Mask

  • Timestamp Shift Generator

  • UUID Key

No subsetting

Spark SDK workspaces do not support subsetting.

No upsert

Spark SDK workspaces do not support upsert.

No output to container artifacts

For Spark SDK workspaces, you cannot write the destination data to container artifacts.

No output to an Ephemeral snapshot

For Spark SDK workspaces, you cannot write the destination data to an Ephemeral snapshot

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