Connection Definitions
👤 This documentation is intended for Site Administrators and/or Database Administrators.
SSL JDBC Connection
The easiest way to connect to a database to Sisense is through an SSL JDBC connection. Below is what is needed to get connected.
Database Name or S3 Staging Directory (Athena)
This is the name of the database as it is configured on the database
Database Type
Databases connect slightly differently depending on their types so it is important to select the correct database type when connecting a database.
Database Host or Account Name (Snowflake)
The database host is the web address at which Sisense can find the database. The database host needs to be publicly accessible via the internet and accepting connections from the Sisense IP
Warehouse Name
For Snowflake databases which decouple storage from computation, a warehouse needs to be specified for query processing. Once the specified, Sisense will continue to use the same warehouse to run every query.
Database Port
Each database type has a default port through which it accepts connections. If the database has not been configured to use a special port, it is likely accepting connections through these ports:
- MySQL: 3306
- Postgres: 5432
- Redshift: 5439
- Vertica: 5433
- SQL Server: 1433
- Oracle: 1521
- MemSQL: 3306
- Sybase: 5000
- Exasol: 8563
Database Username & Password
This is the username and the corresponding password that Sisense will connect to the database with. Sisense currently supports password authentication to a database and cannot accept connections utilizing public key authentication. It is recommended that a user is created specifically for Sisense to access the database.
SSH Tunnel Connections
These connection credentials are required if the database is sitting within a private network or behind a firewall.
Database Host
While all other connection components will remain the same as an SSL JDBC connection when connecting using SSH, the database host will now be an internal address that does not have to be publicly accessible.
SSH Host
This is the public facing URL or IP address of the server that is listening for SSH connections.
SSH Username
This is the username that has been created on the SSH host at the operating system level that has been authorized with the Sisense public key. For more information on setting up the SSH host, check out Sisense's Private Network SSH Tunnels docs.
SSH Port
The default SSH port is 22, but if the SSH host server is configured to listen for SSH connections on a different port, that should be entered instead.
