Connect Data

Before you can start running analytical queries on data stored in a database, you have to connect the database to your workspace in GoodData. You do this by creating a data source for one of the supported databases listed below.

Note that GoodData also supports connecting your data via AWS PrivateLink.

Supported Databases

GoodData supports connections to the following databases:

• Snowflake
• Amazon Redshift
• Google BigQuery
• PostgreSQL
• Vertica
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Azure SQL
• Synapse SQL
• Databricks
• Greenplum
• ClickHouse
• MySQL
• MariaDB
• Oracle Database
• Amazon Aurora
  • To connect to Aurora PostgreSQL, see PostgreSQL.
  • To connect to Aurora MySQL, see MySQL.

As a beta feature, GoodData also support connections to the following data source managers, which will in turn let you connect to even more types of databases:

• Dremio
• Apache Drill

Please note that regardless of which database you connect to, we only support data types listed in this Supported Data Types table.