Overview

In this tutorial series, you are going to learn about data connections, how to create them, update them, and delete them. You’ll also learn how they relate to other assets in Qlik Cloud, such as Analytics apps, data files, data stores, data assets, data sets, automation connections and data integration sources and targets.

Connections in Qlik Cloud

It is important to know that Qlik Cloud supports multiple types of connections to data sources, including:

• Qlik Cloud Analytics data connections - used for building Qlik Cloud Analytics apps
• Qlik Talend Data Integration data connections - used for building Qlik Talend Data Integration projects
• Qlik Automate automation connections - used for building Qlik Automate workflows

This tutorial series covers analytics and data integration data connections, which share the same API endpoints for most connector types.

Analytics data connections

A Qlik Cloud Analytics data connection refers to a connection established between your Qlik Cloud tenant and a data source, which can be directly used for sourcing data for loading into Qlik Sense applications.

Data connections in Qlik Cloud enable the integration of data from a wide range of systems and databases, such as relational databases, spreadsheets, cloud-based data sources, web services, and more. These connections provide a bridge for bringing data into Qlik Cloud applications, allowing users to build data models, create visualizations, and perform data analysis.

Each connection requires connection parameters such as server addresses, authentication credentials, and other relevant configuration details specific to the data source. Once configured, these connections can be shared as assets within spaces, and leveraged by users with appropriate access rights.

To learn more about connectivity to analytics data sources in Qlik Cloud, review the Getting started with loading your data guide on Qlik Help.

To learn more about the available connectivity to web-based, web storage, JDBC, ODBC, REST, Salesforce, and SAP sources, review the full list at Qlik Cloud Analytics data sources on Qlik Help.

Data integration data connections

A Qlik Talend Data Integration data connection refers to a connection established to a source or target data service, which can be used for building data integration projects.

To learn more about the range of data sources and targets available, review the Qlik Cloud Data Integration connection help page.

API support for data connections

There are several APIs in Qlik Cloud which support the creation and management of data connections. These are:

• Data connections - manages data connections.
• Data credentials - manages credentials for data connections.
• Data sources - provides information on the data sources to which data connections can be created.

Data connections and data credentials APIs provide full manageability of data connections in Qlik Cloud.

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