Connectors for projects and catalogs
You can add connections to a broad array of data sources in projects and catalogs. Source connections can be used only to read data; target connections can be used only to load (save) data. When you create a target connection, be sure to use credentials that have Write permission or you won't be able to save data to the target.
From a project, you must create a connection to a data source before you can read data from it or load data to it.
From a catalog, you must add a connection asset before you can add data assets for the tables you can access from the connection.
From Watson Query, you can create connections on the Platform connections page or on the Data virtualization > Data sources page. For more information, see Adding and connecting to data sources in Watson Query.
IBM services
- HDFS via Execution Engine for Hadoop
- Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop. Supports source connections only.
- IBM Cloud Data Engine. Supports source connections only.
- IBM Cloud Databases for DataStax
- IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB. Supports source connections only.
- IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL
- IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
- IBM Cloud Object Storage (infrastructure)
- IBM Cloudant
- IBM Cognos Analytics. Supports source connections only.
- IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS
- IBM Db2
- IBM Db2 (optimized). DataStage only.
- IBM Db2 Big SQL
- IBM Db2 for i
- IBM Db2 for z/OS
- IBM Db2 on Cloud
- IBM Db2 Warehouse
- IBM Informix
- IBM Match 360
- IBM MQ. DataStage only.
- IBM Netezza Performance Server
- IBM Netezza Performance Server (optimized). DataStage only.
- IBM Planning Analytics
- IBM Product Master
- IBM SPSS Analytic Server. Supports source connections only.
- IBM Watson Query. Supports source connections only.
- Impala via Execution Engine for Hadoop. Supports source connections only.
- Storage volume
- watsonx.data. Supports source connections only.
Third-party services
- Amazon RDS for MySQL
- Amazon RDS for Oracle
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Cassandra (optimized). DataStage only.
- Apache Derby
- Apache HBase. DataStage only.
- Apache HDFS
- Apache Hive. Supports source connections only.
- Apache Kafka
- Box
- Cloudera Impala. Supports source connections only.
- Dremio. Supports source connections only.
- Dropbox
- Elasticsearch
- Exasol
- FTP
- Generic S3
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub. DataStage only.
- Google Cloud Storage
- Greenplum
- HTTP. Supports source connections only.
- Looker. Supports source connections only.
- MariaDB
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage
- Microsoft Azure File Storage
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database
- Microsoft Power BI (Azure). Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- Microsoft Power BI (Local). Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services. Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- MinIO
- MongoDB. Supports source connections only.
- MySQL
- OData
- ODBC. DataStage only.
- Oracle
- Oracle (optimized). DataStage only.
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- Oracle Data Integrator. Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- PostgreSQL
- Presto. Supports source connections only.
- Qlik Sense. Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog) only.
- Salesforce.com. Supports source connections only.
- Salesforce.com (optimized). DataStage only.
- SAP ASE. Supports source connections only.
- SAP Bulk Extract. DataStage only. Supports source connections only.
- SAP Delta Extract. DataStage only. Supports source connections only.
- SAP HANA
- SAP IDoc. DataStage only.
- SAP IQ. Supports source connections only.
- SAP OData
- SingleStoreDB
- Snowflake
- Tableau. Supports source connections only.
- Teradata
- Teradata (optimized). DataStage only.
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User-defined
Supported connectors by tool
The following tools and services support connections:
- AutoAI
- Cognos Dashboards
- Data Refinery
- DataStage
- Notebooks
- SPSS Modeler
- Watson Knowledge Catalog (Data quality rules, Metadata enrichment, Metadata import)
- Watson Query
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Parent topic: Supported data sources