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Connect to Redshift

This topic describes how to connect to Amazon Redshift from Domino. You must have network connectivity between Redshift and your Domino deployment.

The easiest way to connect to Redshift from Domino is to create a Domino Data Source as described below.

Create a Redshift Data Source

  1. From the navigation pane, click Data > Data Sources.

  2. Click Create a Data Source.

  3. In the New Data Source window, from Select Data Store, select Amazon Redshift.

  4. Enter the Host, Port, and name of the Database.

  5. Enter the Data Source Name.

  6. Optional: Enter a Description to explain the purpose of the Data Source to others.

  7. Click Next.

  8. Specify the credentials for authenticating to Redshift.

    Basic authentication is supported by default. IAM credential propagation might also be available if your administrator has enabled it.

    Note
    		 IAM-authenticated connections can be used only for executing jobs and workspaces. Other execution types, such as scheduled jobs and Domino endpoints, require basic authentication.

  9. Select who can view and use the Data Source in projects.

  10. Click Finish Setup.

Alternate way to connect to a Redshift Data Source

Warning
 This section describes an alternate method to connect to the Redshift Data Source. Domino does not officially support this method.

Prerequisites

  • Domino recommends storing your database username and password as environment variables in your project. This lets you access them at runtime without including them in your code.

Python

To establish a connection to Redshift with the psycopg2 library:

import psycopg2
import os

HOST = os.environ['REDSHIFT_HOST']
PORT = 5439 # redshift default
USER = os.environ['REDSHIFT_USER']
PASSWORD = os.environ['REDSHIFT_PASSWD']
DATABASE = 'mydatabase'

def db_connection():
    conn = psycopg2.connect(
        host=HOST,
        port=PORT,
        user=USER,
        password=PASSWORD,
        database=DATABASE,
    )
    return conn

example_query = "SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT 5"

conn = db_connection()
try:
    cursor = conn.cursor()
    cursor.execute(example_query)
    results = cursor.fetchall() # careful, the results could be huge
    conn.commit()
    print results
finally:
    conn.close()

# using pandas
import pandas as pd
conn = db_connection()
try:
    df = pd.read_sql(example_query, conn)
    df.to_csv('results/outfile.csv', index=False)
finally:
    conn.close()

R

To establish a connection to Redshift with the RPostgreSQL library:

install.packages("RPostgreSQL")
library(RPostgreSQL)

redshift_host <- Sys.getenv("REDSHIFT_HOST")
redshift_port <- "5439"
redshift_user <- Sys.getenv("REDSHIFT_USER")
redshift_password <- Sys.getenv("REDSHIFT_PASSWORD")
redshift_db <- "mydatabase"

drv <- dbDriver("PostgreSQL")
conn <- dbConnect(
    drv,
    host=redshift_host,
    port=redshift_port,
    user=redshift_user,
    password=redshift_password,
    dbname=redshift_db)

tryCatch({
    example_query <- "SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT 5"
    results <- dbGetQuery(conn, example_query)
    print(results)
}, finally = {
    dbDisconnect(conn)
})

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