What is Bulk API?
Bulk API is a functionality grounded on the REST principles and is used to process large amounts of data in batches. This is a programmatic option that can be used by someone who has a background in web services and software development. Bulk API can process records loaded as CSV files within Salesforce Data Loader.
What is the purpose of bulk API?
Bulk API and Asynchronous Requests Bulk API is based on REST principles and is optimized for working with large sets of data. You can use it to insert, update, upsert, or delete many records asynchronously, meaning that you submit a request and come back for the results later.
What is the use of Bulk API in Salesforce?
The Salesforce Bulk API allows you to quickly load your organization’s data into Salesforce from CSV or XML files. To use the Bulk API, you first create a job which results in a job ID. Then you add one or more batch to the job, identified by the Job ID. The result for each batch is a Batch ID.
What is SOAP API and bulk API?
SOAP API – the first introduced synchronous API for creating, retrieving, updating, or deleting records, performing searches, executing SOQL, etc., using SOAP web services protocol. Bulk API – asynchronous REST-based API for managing large sets of data with large batches processed in background.
What is bulk upload API?
If you are uploading large amounts of data, and the data is not critical, you can use the Bulk Upload API to split the job into batches that run in parallel, which means that they start at the same time instead of one after another.
How do I use streaming API?
Overview
- Step 1: Configure your stream. If you are using either the Decahose or Firehose, you don’t need to configure your stream.
- Step 2: Connect to the API.
- Step 3: Consume the data as it’s delivered.
- Step 4: When disconnected, reconnect to the API.