Create a Storage Plugin

Overview

To create a storage plugin, you must create a collection of classes that work in the planner and runtime:

• Storage plugin
• Storage plugin config
• Default and optional nested schema definitions
• Table definitions
• Scan definitions, including one passed from the planner to the execution engine
• Run-time scan operator

The example here is for the simplest possible storage plugin, implemented at runtime using the EVF framework.

Steps

• Create the Plugin
• Create the Schema and Table
• Create the Group and Sub Scans
• Create the Reader