Cloudant connection
To access your data in Cloudant, create a connection asset for it.
Cloudant is a JSON document database available in IBM Cloud.
Create a connection to Cloudant
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- URL to the Cloudant database
- Database name
- Username and password
For Credentials, 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 Cloudant connections in the following workspaces and tools:
- Projects
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- Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Use the insert-to-code function 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)
Cloudant setup
To set up the Cloudant database on IBM Cloud, see Getting started with IBM Cloudant.
When you create
your Cloudant service, for Authentication method, select IAM and legacy credentials.
Restriction
IBM Cloud Query (CQ) is not supported
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Parent topic: Supported connections