Amazon Redshift connection
To access your data in Amazon Redshift, create a connection asset for it.
Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product that forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Create a connection to Amazon Redshift
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Database name
- 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 > Prepare data > Connect to a data source. 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 Import assets > Data access > Connection. See Adding data assets 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 Amazon Redshift connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
- Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
- Data quality rules (IBM Knowledge Catalog, IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio, IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). For information about the supported product versions and other prerequisites when connections are based on MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data scanners, see the Lineage Scanner Configuration section in the MANTA Automated Data Lineage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data Installation and Usage Manual. This documentation is available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6597457.
For metadata import (lineage), MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data and a corresponding license key must be installed. See Installing MANTA Automated Data Lineage and Enabling lineage import.
In addition, a specific driver must be uploaded to the manta-admin-gui pod for lineage import. See Uploading JDBC drivers for lineage import. - 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)
- Synthetic Data Generator (Synthetic Data Generator service)
Catalogs
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Platform assets catalog
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Other catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
- Data Product Hub
- You can connect to this data source from Data Product Hub. For instructions, see Connectors for Data Product Hub.
- Data Virtualization service
- You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance
This connection can be used on a FIPS-enabled cluster (FIPS tolerant); however, it is not FIPS-compliant.
Amazon Redshift setup
See Amazon Redshift setup prerequisites for setup information.
Running SQL statements
To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Amazon Redshift documentation for the correct syntax.
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Parent topic: Supported connections