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.

Required services

The Flight service is available only if the common core services are installed. The common core services are not installed separately. 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.

Components

The Flight API in Cloud Pak for Data is based on the following components:

Services and tools

You can use the Flight service APIs with these services that accept custom Python or R code:

  • Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark
  • IBM Match 360 with Watson
  • Watson Studio
  • Watson Machine Learning
  • Watson Machine Learning Accelerator

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Parent topic: Adding data to a project