Typical Data Format

Setting up tables

Data in your warehouse typically resides in tables. When sharing data with Toplyne, the best practice is creating separate tables for event and profile data, partitioned on a time column.

How does Toplyne sync work?

We prefer to ingest your data incrementally. You must add a monotonically increasing timestamp column in your tables. We will use this column to identify all the new data added to the tables and only read that much data for syncing.

You can add a column called UPDATED_AT with timestamp data type to your table, and this column will highlight when the row in question was added to the table.

If you don't share such a timestamp column, we'll do a daily full scan of your table and sync it entirely.

Event data table

This table will capture a user's action and help answer the question, “What has a user done on your product, and when?” .

Rows

Each row in this table represents an event triggered by a user.

Columns

• USER_ID (Required): Key to identify which user has performed the event
• ACCOUNT_ID (Required for account-level analytics): Key to identify which account the particular user belongs to
• EVENT_NAME (Required): Name of the event
• TIMESTAMP (Required): Timestamp at which the event has occurred
• UPDATED_AT (Required): UTC timestamp when the row has been updated or added (not the event timestamp)
• EVENT_PROPERTIES (Optional): Event properties, typically shared as a JSON
  with key/value pairs

Partition

Partition this table on the TIMESTAMP column.

Sample Event Table

Profile data table

This table will capture any profile information a user or an account has and help answer the question, “Who is this user or account?”.

Rows

Each row in this table is a unique entity.

Columns

• USER_ID/ACCOUNT_ID (Required): Key to identify which entities' properties are listed in the row.
• USER_CREATION_TIME/ ACCOUNT_CREATION_TIME (Optional): To identify when the user or account has been active.
• UPDATED_AT: UTC timestamp when the row has been updated or added (Not the event timestamp)
• USER_PROPERTIES/ACCOUNT_PROPERTIES: Each subsequent column is a profile key; against it, you will have its value. For example, you may include the email address, geographical location, account name, current billing plan they are on, etc.

Partition

Partition this table on the UPDATED_AT column.

Sample User Table

Sample Account Table