The ADLS Adapter is designed for navigating the ADLS metadata only. A variety of of stored procedures relevant to ADLS data are supported as well.

This metadata typically includes details about stored objects, such as file and folder names, and excludes the actual content of the discoverable files.

If access to both the file metadata and the actual file content is needed, then the ADLS Adapter must be used in tandem with the associated file streaming driver(s) for the filetypes stored in ADLS.

The following file streaming drivers are available:

• Avro
• CSV
• Excel
• JSON
• Parquet
• REST
• XML

See the relevant CData file streaming driver's documentation for a configuration guide for connecting to files stored in ADLS.