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Hex

Hex supports querying and visualizing both internal data and external data in CelerData.

Prerequisites​

Make sure that your CelerData cluster's inbound rules allow query requests from your Hex server.

Integration​

Add a data connection in Hex. Note that you must select MySQL as the connection type.

Hex

The parameters that you need to configure are described as follows:

  • Name: the name of the data connection.
  • Host & port: the public endpoint and query port of your CelerData cluster. An example query port is 9030.
  • Database: the data source that you want to access in your CelerData cluster. The value of this parameter is in the <catalog_name>.<database_name> format.
    • catalog_name: the name of the target catalog in your CelerData cluster. Both internal and external catalogs are supported.
    • database_name: the name of the target database in your CelerData cluster. Both internal and external databases are supported.
  • Type: the authentication method that you want to use. Select Password.
  • User: the username that is used to log in to your CelerData cluster, for example, admin.
  • Password: the password that is used to log in to your CelerData cluster.