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Accessing data sources with the Flight service
The Flight service provides read and write access to various data sources through a common API, without you having to deal with database drivers that are specific to the type of the data source. The Flight service provides a single interface for working with many different data sources.
Applications don't need to retrieve credentials from a connection asset and submit them to a databases driver. The Flight service automatically retrieves credentials transparently.
The Flight service is available only if the common core services are installed. The common core services are not a separately installable component. They are automatically installed if you install a service that has a dependency on them. For information about which services install the common core services, see Service software requirements.
The following tools use the Flight service:
- Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
- AutoAI (Watson Machine Learning)
- IBM Match 360 with Watson
- Notebooks and scripts (Watson Studio)
- Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Parent topic: Adding data to a project