# Connectors #

You can add connections to a broad array of data sources in projects\. Source connections can be used to read data; target connections can be used to load (save) data\. When you create a target connection, be sure to use credentials that have Write permission or you won't be able to save data to the target\.

From a project, you must [create a connection](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/create-conn.html) to a data source before you can read data from it or load data to it\.

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 *  [IBM services](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn_types.html?context=cdpaas&locale=en#ibm)
 *  [Third\-party services](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn_types.html?context=cdpaas&locale=en#third)

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 *  [Supported connectors by tool](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn_types.html?context=cdpaas&locale=en#st)

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## IBM services ##

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 *  [IBM Cloud Data Engine](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sqlquery.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [IBM Cloud Databases for DataStax](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-datastax.html)
 *  [IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mongodb.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-compose-mysql.html)
 *  [IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-dbase-postgresql.html)
 *  [IBM Cloud Object Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cos.html)
 *  [IBM Cloud Object Storage (infrastructure)](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cos-infra.html)
 *  [IBM Cloudant](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloudant.html)
 *  [IBM Cognos Analytics](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cognos.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-datavirt-z.html)
 *  [IBM Db2](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2.html)
 *  [IBM Db2 Big SQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-bigsql.html)
 *  [IBM Db2 for i](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2i.html)
 *  [IBM Db2 for z/OS](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2zos.html)
 *  [IBM Db2 on Cloud](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-cloud.html)
 *  [IBM Db2 Warehouse](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-db2-wh.html)
 *  [IBM Informix](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-informix.html)
 *  [IBM Netezza Performance Server](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-puredata.html)
 *  [IBM Planning Analytics](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-plananalytics.html)
 *  [IBM Watson Query](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-data-virtual.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.

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## Third\-party services ##

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 *  [Amazon RDS for MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azrds-mysql.html)
 *  [Amazon RDS for Oracle](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azrds-oracle.html)
 *  [Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azrds-postresql.html)
 *  [Amazon Redshift](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-redshift.html)
 *  [Amazon S3](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-amazon-s3.html)
 *  [Apache Cassandra](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cassandra.html)
 *  [Apache Derby](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-derby.html)
 *  [Apache HDFS](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-hdfs.html)
 *  [Apache Hive](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-hive.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Box](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-box.html)
 *  [Cloudera Impala](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloudera.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Dremio](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-dremio.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Dropbox](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-dropbox.html)
 *  [Elasticsearch](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-elastic.html)
 *  [FTP](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-ftp.html)
 *  [Generic S3](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-generics3.html)
 *  [Google BigQuery](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-bigquery.html)
 *  [Google Cloud Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cloud-storage.html)
 *  [Greenplum](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-greenplum.html)
 *  [HTTP](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-http.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Looker](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-looker.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [MariaDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mariadb.html)
 *  [Microsoft Azure Blob Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azureblob.html)
 *  [Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-cosmosdb.html)
 *  [Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azuredls.html)
 *  [Microsoft Azure File Storage](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azurefs.html)
 *  [Microsoft Azure SQL Database](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-azure-sql.html)
 *  [Microsoft SQL Server](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sql-server.html)
 *  [MongoDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mongo.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [MySQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-mysql.html)
 *  [OData](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-odata.html)
 *  [Oracle](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-oracle.html)
 *  [PostgreSQL](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-postgresql.html)
 *  [Presto](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-presto.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Salesforce\.com](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-salesforce.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [SAP ASE](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sap-ase.html)
 *  [SAP IQ](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sap-iq.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [SAP OData](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-sapodata.html)
 *  [SingleStoreDB](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-singlestore.html)
 *  [Snowflake](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-snowflake.html)
 *  [Tableau](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-tableau.html)\. *Supports source connections only*\.
 *  [Teradata](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn-teradata.html)  
    *Teradata JDBC Driver 17.00.00.03 Copyright (C) 2023 by Teradata. All rights reserved. IBM provides embedded usage of the Teradata JDBC Driver under license from Teradata solely for use as part of the IBM Watson service offering.*.

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## Supported connectors by tool ##

The following tools support connections:

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 *  [AutoAI](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/autoai-overview.html)
 *  [Data Refinery](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/refinery/refinery-datasources.html)
 *  [Decision Optimization](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/DO/DODS_Introduction/DOconnections.html)
 *  [Notebooks](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/data-load-support.html)
 *  [SPSS Modeler](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsd/spss-connections.html)
 *  [Synthetic Data Generator](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/synthetic/import_data_sd.html)

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## Learn more ##

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 *  [Asset previews](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/getting-started/previews.html)
 *  [Profiles of assets](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/getting-started/profile.html)
 *  [Troubleshooting connections](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/troubleshoot/troubleshoot-conn.html)

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**Parent topic**: [Preparing data](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/get-data.html)

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