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 |
| UseLakeFormation | When this property is set to true, AWSLakeFormation service will be used to retrieve temporary credentials, which enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. The service can be used when authenticating through OKTA, ADFS, AzureAD, PingFederate, while providing a SAML assertion. |
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | Specifies the type of authentication to use when connecting to Amazon DynamoDB. If this property is left blank, the default authentication is used. |
| Domain | Specifies your AWS domain name. Use this property to set a custom domain name if your organization has associated one with AWS. |
| DynamoDBVPCEndpoint | Specifies the Amazon DynamoDB VPC endpoint to use when connecting through AWS PrivateLink. |
| AWSAccessKey | Specifies 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. |
| 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. |
| CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where MFA credentials are saved. |
| 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. |
| AWSWebIdentityToken | The OAuth 2.0 access token or OpenID Connect ID token that is provided by an identity provider. |
| 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 for service specific credentials. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | Specifies the certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | Specifies the protocol the provider uses to tunnel traffic through a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | Identifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy used to traverse a firewall and relay user queries to network resources. |
| FirewallPort | Specifies the TCP port to be used for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | Identifies the user ID of the account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | Specifies the password of the user account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | Specifies whether the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations, rather than using a manually specified proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | Identifies the hostname or IP address of the proxy server through which you want to route HTTP traffic. |
| ProxyPort | Identifies the TCP port on your specified proxy server that has been reserved for routing HTTP traffic to and from the client. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | Specifies the authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | Provides the username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyPassword | Specifies the password of the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | Specifies the SSL type to use when connecting to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyExceptions | Specifies a semicolon-separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the proxy server set in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | Specifes the file path to the log file where the provider records its activities, such as authentication, query execution, and connection details. |
| Verbosity | Specifies the verbosity level of the log file, which controls the amount of detail logged. Supported values range from 1 to 5. |
| LogModules | Specifies the core modules to include in the log file. Use a semicolon-separated list of module names. By default, all modules are logged. |
| MaxLogFileSize | Specifies the maximum size of a single log file in bytes. For example, '10 MB'. When the file reaches the limit, the provider creates a new log file with the date and time appended to the name. |
| MaxLogFileCount | Specifies the maximum number of log files the provider retains. When the limit is reached, the oldest log file is deleted to make space for a new one. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | Specifies the location of a directory containing schema files that define tables, views, and stored procedures. Depending on your service's requirements, this may be expressed as either an absolute path or a relative path. |
| BrowsableSchemas | Optional setting that restricts the schemas reported to a subset of all available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC . |
| Tables | Optional setting that restricts the tables reported to a subset of all available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC . |
| Views | Optional setting that restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC . |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Specifies whether the content of tables targeted by SELECT queries is automatically cached to the specified cache database. |
| CacheProvider | The namespace of an ADO.NET provider. The specified provider is used as the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheDriver | The driver class of a JDBC driver. The specified driver is used to connect to the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheConnection | Specifies the connection string for the specified cache database. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | Notes the tolerance, in seconds, for stale data in the specified cache database. Requires AutoCache to be set to True. |
| Offline | Gets the data from the specified cache database instead of live Amazon DynamoDB data. |
| CacheMetadata | Determines whether the provider caches table metadata to a file-based cache database. |
| Property | Description |
| AutoDetectIndex | Specifies whether the provider should automatically detect and use secondary indexes based on the query criteria. |
| BatchSize | Specifies the maximum number of rows included in each batch submitted during batch operations. To submit the entire batch as a single request, set BatchSize to 0 . |
| ConnectOnOpen | Specifies whether the provider establishes a connection to Amazon DynamoDB immediately upon opening the connection. Set ConnectOnOpen to True if immediate connectivity verification is necessary. |
| DefaultDomain | This property is used for the Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC. |
| EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| FlattenArrays | This property flattens nested array elements into individual columns. By default, nested arrays are returned as JSON strings. Set this property to the number of elements to extract from nested arrays. |
| FlattenObjects | Specifies whether nested object properties are flattened into individual columns. |
| FlexibleSchema | Specifies whether the provider should dynamically scan query result sets for additional metadata. Set to true to enable scanning or false to use a static metadata structure. |
| GenerateSchemaFiles | Indicates the user preference as to when schemas should be generated and saved. |
| IgnoreTypes | Specifies which data types should be ignored and reported as strings. |
| IncludeDualTable | Set this property to mock the Oracle DUAL table for better compatibility with Oracle database. |
| 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. |
| MaximumRequestRetries | Specifies the maximum number of times the provider retries a request when a temporary issue is detected. Temporary issues include network interruptions, transient errors, or exceeding operational thresholds. |
| MaxRows | Specifies the maximum number of rows returned for queries that do not include either aggregation or GROUP BY. |
| Other | Specifies additional hidden properties for specific use cases., to be used only when our Support team advises it, to address specific issues. See Remarks for details. |
| Pagesize | Specifies the maximum number of items provider evaluates per API request. The default value, -1, allows the server to calculate the page size automatically. |
| PseudoColumns | Specifies the pseudocolumns to expose as table columns, expressed as a string in the format 'TableName=ColumnName;TableName=ColumnName'. |
| QueryMode | Specifies the mode used by the provider to retrieve results from Amazon DynamoDB. |
| Readonly | Toggles read-only access to Amazon DynamoDB from the provider. |
| RetryWaitTime | Specifies the minimum number of milliseconds the provider waits before retrying a request. The wait time doubles with each retry. |
| RowScanDepth | The maximum number of rows to scan to look for the columns available in a table. |
| RTK | Specifies the runtime key for licensing the provider. If unset or invalid, the provider defaults to the standard licensing method. This property is only required in environments where the standard licensing method is unsupported or requires a runtime key. |
| SeparatorCharacter | Specifies the character or characters used to denote hierarchy in flattened structures, such as Maps and List attributes in DynamoDB. |
| ThreadCount | Specifies the number of threads to allocate for parallel scans during data selection. A value of 1 disables parallel scanning, while higher values increase parallelism. |
| Timeout | Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that the provider waits for a server response before throwing a timeout error. |
| TypeDetectionScheme | Specifies the method used to determine the data type of columns. |
| 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. |
| UseBatchWriteItemOperation | Specifies the use of the BatchWriteItem operation for updates and inserts. This is required for handling binary or binary-set data, as the default operations (ExecuteStatement/BatchExecuteStatement) do not support these field types. |
| UseConsistentReads | Specifies whether consistent reads should always be used when querying DynamoDB. Consistent reads provide the most up-to-date data, but consume more read capacity. |
| UserDefinedViews | Specifies a filepath to a JSON configuration file that defines custom views. The provider automatically detects and uses the views specified in this file. |
| UseSimpleNames | Specifies whether or not simple names should be used for tables and columns. |