# Data sampling

Available in...

* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Integration
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Cloud Pipeline Designer Standard Edition
* Data Fabric

Extracts randomly a subset of your data based on an approximate ratio or a fixed number of records.

The Data sampling processor allows you to decide the number or percentage of records you want to extract from your original dataset.

### In this section

* [Data sampling properties](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/pipeline-designer-processors-guide/Cloud/data-sampling-properties)
* [Extracting a fixed-size sample from a dataset about drivers](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/pipeline-designer-processors-guide/Cloud/extracting-fixed-size-sample-from-dataset-about-drivers)