Exasol connection

To access your data in Exasol, create a connection asset for it.

Exasol is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system.

Prerequisite

The Exasol connection requires a JAR file. The Cloud Pak for Data JDBC Driver is available from the Maven repository. Supported Exasol JDBC Driver version: 7.1.4. See Importing JDBC drivers for the procedure and required permissions to upload the JAR file to Cloud Pak for Data.

Create a connection to Exasol

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

  • Exasol JDBC Driver JAR file
  • Database name
  • Fingerprint
  • Hostname or IP address
  • Port number
  • Username and password
  • SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project
Click Assets > New asset > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a catalog
Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
In a deployment space
Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
In the Platform assets catalog
Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

Where you can use this connection

You can use Exasol connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

  • AutoAI (Watson Machine Learning)
  • Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
  • Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
  • DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
  • Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
  • SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)

Catalogs

  • Platform assets catalog

  • Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)

    Note:

    Preview, profile, and masking do not work for this connection in Watson Knowledge Catalog.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

The Exasol connection is compliant with FIPS.

Learn more

Exasol documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections