MATLAB Interface for Azure Services

This package provides MATLAB® interfaces that connect to various Microsoft Azure® Services, it currently supports:

Note, very many of MATLAB’s IO operations support Blob Storage via builtin functions. For example dir supports accessing remote data:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/dir.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/work-with-remote-data.html

Where MATLAB supports the required operations, it is recommended to use the builtin support, particularly in preference to this package’s Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 lower level capabilities.

Requirements

MathWorks® Products
- MATLAB® R2019a or later
- MATLAB® R2021a or later if using Azure Data Explorer
3rd party products (Required to build the Azure SDK jar file)
- Maven™ 3.6.1 or later
- JDK v8 or greater and less than v18

Documentation

The primary documentation for this package is available at: https://mathworks-ref-arch.github.io/matlab-azure-services

Usage

Once installed the interface can be added to the MATLAB path by running startup.m from the Software/MATLAB directory. Also refer to configuration and authentication details below.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 examples

Create a Blob Client and check if a blob exists

blobClient = createStorageClient('ContainerName','myContainer','BlobName','myBlob') 
tf = blobClient.exists();

Acquire a lease for a blob

builder = azure.storage.blob.specialized.BlobLeaseClientBuilder;
builder = builder.blobClient(blobClient);
% Build the BlobLeaseClient
leaseClient = builder.buildClient();
% Acquire a lease for 30 seconds
leaseId = leaseClient.acquireLease(30)

Create Queue Service Client and create a queue

queueServiceClient = createStorageClient('Type','QueueService');
queueClient = queueServiceClient.createQueue('myqueuename');

Create File Data Lake (file) Client and check if the file exists

dataLakeFileClient = createStorageClient('FileSystemName','myFileSystem',...
               'FileName','my/dir/file');
tf = dataLakeFileClient.exists();

For further details see: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Azure Key Vault

Create a Secret Client and get a secret value

secretClient = createKeyVaultClient('Type','Secret');
% Get the secret using its name
secret = secretClient.getSecret('mySecretName');
% Get the secret value
secretValue = secret.getValue();

List keys in a vault

% Create a client
keyClient = createKeyVaultClient('Type','Key');
% Get an array of secret properties
properties = keyClient.listPropertiesOfKeys();
% Get the name property for the first entry
name = propList(1).getName();

For further details see: Azure Key Vault

Azure Data Explorer

This package provides access to Azure Data Explorer related features from within MATLAB. Lower-level interfaces to the Azure Data Explorer REST APIs are provided along with some higher-level interfaces for common tasks. The Control plane REST API client is automatically generated based upon the OpenAPI spec. provided in https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification.

Return “Hello World” using a Kusto query

>> [result, success] = mathworks.adx.run('print myColumn="Hello World"')
result =
  table
      myColumn    
    _____________
    "Hello World"
success =
  logical
   1

A query to count the number of rows in a table

>> rowCount = mathworks.adx.run(sprintf("myTableName | count", tableName))
rowCount =
  table
    Count 
    ______
    123523

Return some rows in a table

>> firstRows = mathworks.adx.run("myTableName | take 5")
firstRows =
  5x27 table
       Date        DayOfWeek          DepTime                CRSDepTime
    ___________    _________    ____________________    ____________________
    21-Oct-1987        3        21-Oct-1987 06:42:00    21-Oct-1987 06:30:00
    26-Oct-1987        1        26-Oct-1987 10:21:00    26-Oct-1987 10:20:00
    23-Oct-1987        5        23-Oct-1987 20:55:00    23-Oct-1987 20:35:00
    23-Oct-1987        5        23-Oct-1987 13:32:00    23-Oct-1987 13:20:00
    22-Oct-1987        4        22-Oct-1987 06:29:00    22-Oct-1987 06:30:00

Configuration & authentication

While the packages share some common configuration and authentication code they also have separate configuration details to record preferred default endpoints and authentication methods.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 & Azure Key Vault setup

First change to the matlab-azure-services/Software/MATLAB directory and run the startup command to configure paths.

The package offers a loadConfigurationSettings function which allows reading configuration settings from a short JSON format file. This offers a convenient way for you to configure various settings (like endpoint URLs) as well as authentication configurations without having to hardcode these into your MATLAB code. For more details see: Configuration

Virtually all interactions with Azure will require some form of authentication. The package offers various Builder classes as well as a higher-level function configureCredentials to aid performing the authentication. For more details see: Authentication

Azure Data Explorer setup

First change to the matlab-azure-services/Software/MATLAB directory and run the startup command to configure paths.

Initially run mathworks.adx.buildSettingsFile, to configure credentials & settings. For more details see: ADXAuthentication.md. A number of authentication methods are supported.

Assuming Client Secret authentication, the simplest to configure, this should result in a file: Software/MATLAB/config/adx.Client.Settings.json similar to:

{
    "preferredAuthMethod" : "clientSecret",
    "subscriptionId" : "<REDACTED>",
    "tenantId" : "<REDACTED>",
    "clientId" : "<REDACTED>",
    "clientSecret" : "<REDACTED>",
    "database" : "<defaultDatabaseName>",
    "resourceGroup": "<resourceGroupName>",
    "cluster" : "https://<defaultClusterName>.<region>.kusto.windows.net"
}

License

The license for the MATLAB Interface for Azure Services is available in the License.txt file in this repository. This package uses certain third-party content which is licensed under separate license agreements. See the pom.xml in the Software/Java directory of this package for details of third-party software downloaded at build time.

Enhancement Request

Provide suggestions for additional features or capabilities using the following link: https://www.mathworks.com/products/reference-architectures/request-new-reference-architectures.html

Support

Please create a GitHub issue.

Microsoft Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Lake Storage & Azure Key Vault are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.