New Source Connector: 🤗 "Hugging Face Datasets" (optionally via DuckDB 🦆 )

[aaronsteers]

Overview

This blog post came out 2 weeks ago, announcing a new feature where DuckDB can now extract from hugging face datasets using the hf:// URI prefix.

We think this would make an awesome connector for users in our community.

https://duckdb.org/2024/05/29/access-150k-plus-datasets-from-hugging-face-with-duckdb.html

Technical spec

You would write a new source connector which can connect to Hugging Face source datasets and emit records from them, allowing Airbyte users to send these to any Airbyte destination.

Notes:

• It is not strictly required to use the DuckDB source implementation - although this is desirable for us since it could be leveraged for similar use cases in the future.
• We do not yet have a source connector for DuckDB, although we do have a Destination and a PyAirbyte Cache and SQLProcessor.
• While we normally only assign one hackathon task at a time, we would reserve this particular issue for someone who wanted to build this on top of DuckDB and also pick up the related item:
  • New Source Connector: DuckDB 🦆  #31

Definition of Done

• You would build a new "Hugging Face Datasets" source in Python (reusing code if helpful).
• The source should accept configuration inputs that specify specifically which Hugging Face dataset(s) to stream.
• If primary keys exist, they should be registered in the catalog.
• If incremental keys exist, they should be described as well in the catalog.
• You should use the CDK as much as possible.
• The connector should pass integration tests and acceptance tests.

[ombhardwajj]

@aaronsteers I am interested in working on this and also willing to work on #31 which is closely related to this!
Please assign it to me!

[aaronsteers]

Awesome! You are the first to chime in so I think this one is yours! Can you also drop a comment in the other issue. (GitHub won't let me assign otherwise.)

[ombhardwajj]

@aaronsteers I've started working on this issue and started buiilding a connector for hugging face datasets in python cdk.
But I just wanted to make sure if this issue and #31 are part of feature contributions because recently I was not assigned #20 in quickstarts (probably due to confusion as these issues #30 , #31 are in No Hackathon category currently).I had been waiting to get it assigned since past 5 days! Even before I had got this assigned!

[aaronsteers]

Hi, @ombhardwajj . I apologize for any confusion. I've put this and #31 into the Feature Contributions categories.

Do you need any assist on this item or on #31?

[ombhardwajj]

@aaronsteers Thanks for the concern. Regarding #31, I am first going to solve for this issue then I'll start solving #31.
Currently I am facing some dependency "conflicts", so I was thinking of shifting to lowcode instead of Python cdk does that work with you? Otherwise I'll give it another try...

[ombhardwajj]

Over the past week, I tried to build this but, unfortunately, I have been facing some errors. Despite my efforts to resolve them, I have not been successful. Therefore, I am un-assigning myself from this issue.

[bala-ceg]

Hi @aaronsteers,
can i work on this issue?

[aaronsteers]

@ombhardwajj - I understand. Thanks for looping back.

@bala-ceg - If you still are wanting to pick this up, it is yours. 👍