Connection Properties
The connection properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection settings for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Getting Started.
| Property | Description |
| AthenaVPCEndpoint | Your Athena VPC Endpoint. It will override the default athena.{region}.amazonaws.com endpoint. |
| S3StagingDirectory | Specifies the location Amazon Athena will use to store the results of a query. |
| EncryptionType | Specifies the encryption option for query results in Athena. |
| EncryptionKey | Specifies the encryption key when encrypting results stored in S3. |
| Database | The name of the Athena database. |
| DataSource | The name of the Athena Data Source. |
| Property | Description |
| CrossAccountId | The Account Id to use when retrieving metadata from Glue. Default is current account id. |
| SimpleUploadLimit | This setting specifies the threshold, in bytes, above which the provider will choose to perform a multipart upload rather than uploading everything in one request. |
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The scheme used for authentication. Accepted entries are: Auto, , AwsRootKeys , AwsIAMRoles , AwsEC2Roles , AwsMFA , ADFS, Okta, PingFederate , AwsCredentialsFile , AwsCognitoBasic , AwsCognitoSrp. |
| AWSAccessKey | Your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
| AWSPrincipalARN | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
| AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
| AWSCredentialsFile | The path to the AWS Credentials File to be used for authentication. |
| AWSCredentialsFileProfile | The name of the profile to be used from the supplied AWSCredentialsFile. |
| AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
| AWSExternalId | A unique identifier that might be required when you assume a role in another account. |
| MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
| MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
| TemporaryTokenDuration | The amount of time (in seconds) a temporary token will last. |
| AWSCognitoRegion | The hosting region for AWS Cognito. |
| AWSUserPoolId | The User Pool Id. |
| AWSUserPoolClientAppId | The User Pool Client App Id. |
| AWSUserPoolClientAppSecret | Optional. The User Pool Client App Secret. |
| AWSIdentityPoolId | The Identity Pool Id. |
| Property | Description |
| User | The IDP user used to authenticate the IDP via SSO. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the IDP user via SSO. |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
| SSOExchangeUrl | The url used for consuming the SAML response and exchanging it with Amazon Athena specific credentials. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
| Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| MaxLogFileSize | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). |
| MaxLogFileCount | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| BrowsableSchemas | This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC. |
| Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
| Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |
| FlattenArrays | By default, arrays are returned as strings of JSON. The FlattenArrays property can be used to flatten the elements of arrays into columns of their own. Set FlattenArrays to the number of elements you want to return from arrays. |
| FlattenObjects | Set FlattenObjects to true to flatten object properties into columns of their own. Otherwise, objects nested in arrays are returned as strings of JSON. |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
| CacheProvider | The name of the provider to be used to cache data. |
| CacheDriver | The database driver used to cache data. |
| CacheConnection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
| Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
| CacheMetadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
| Property | Description |
| BatchSize | The maximum size of each batch operation to submit. |
| CleanQueryResults | Amazon Athena produces cache files with every query, in the folder specified in S3StagingDirectory . CleanQueryResults specifies whether these files should be deleted once the connection is closed. |
| DefaultDomain | This property is used for the Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC. |
| EnableFIPSMode | A boolean indicating if FIPS URLs should be enabled. |
| EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| IncludeDualTable | Set this property to mock the Oracle DUAL table for better compatibility with Oracle database. |
| IncludeTableTypes | If set to true, the provider will query for the types of individual tables. |
| LimitKeySize | The maximum length of a primary key column. |
| MapBigintToVarchar | This property controls whether or not the bigint type maps to SQL_VARCHAR instead of SQL_BIGINT. This property is false by default. |
| MapToInt | This property controls whether or not the long type maps to SQL_INTEGER instead of SQL_BIGINT. This property is false by default. |
| MapToLongVarchar | This property controls whether or not a column is returned as SQL_LONGVARCHAR. |
| MapToWVarchar | This property controls whether or not string types map to SQL_WVARCHAR instead of SQL_VARCHAR. This property is set by default. |
| MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| MetadataDiscoveryMethod | API to use to retrieve the metadata for Amazon Athena. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| PageSize | The number of results to return per page of data retrieved from Amazon Athena. |
| PollingInterval | This determines the polling interval in milliseconds to check whether the result is ready to be retrieved. |
| PseudoColumns | This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table. |
| QueryCachingLevel | Modifies the usage of query results stored in S3StagingDirectory . Cached queries will not be scanned again by Amazon Athena until the amount of seconds specified in QueryTolerance has passed. |
| QueryPassthrough | This option passes the query to the Amazon Athena server as is. |
| QueryTimeout | The timeout in seconds for requests issued by the provider to download large result sets. |
| QueryTolerance | Specifies the amount of time in seconds queries cache for if QueryCachingLevel is not set to None. |
| RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
| ShowS3Filepath | Whether or not to expose the _S3Path column for the Amazon Athena tables. |
| SkipHeaderLineCount | Specifies the number of header rows to skip for SELECT queries. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UpperCaseIdentifiers | This property reports all identifiers in uppercase. This is the default for Oracle databases and thus allows better integration with Oracle tools such as the Oracle Database Gateway. |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |
| Workgroup | Work group of the executed queries. |