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# Readers

All the available Reader Task components are included in this section.

Readers are a group of tasks that can read data from different DB and cloud storages. In Jobs, all the tasks run in real-time. 

There are Seven(7) Readers tasks in Jobs. All the readers tasks is having the following tabs:

* **Meta Information:** Configure the meta information same as doing in pipeline components.
* **Preview Data:** Only ten(10) random data can be previewed in this tab only when the task is running in Development mode.
* **Preview schema:** Spark schema of the reading data will be shown in this tab.
* **Logs:** Logs of the tasks will display here.