Amazon Keyspaces with DBine

How to connect DBine to Amazon Keyspaces and what you can do once it's connected. This page is written from what the Amazon Keyspaces driver says about itself, so it matches the version of DBine you download.

Connect

  1. In DBine, open New connection.
  2. Pick Amazon Keyspaces in the list of engines.
  3. Fill in the fields below, press Test connection and then Save.

Default port: 9142.

General

FieldDescription
Server requiredThe region's endpoint: cassandra.<region>.amazonaws.com.
Example: cassandra.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
PortExample: 9142
Keyspace
User requiredUser of the service-specific credentials (IAM → Amazon Keyspaces credentials).
Password requiredPassword of the service-specific credentials.
Kept in the system keychain, never in DBine's files.
Read-onlyOn or off.

SSH tunnel. The connection can go through an SSH server, even through a chain of bastions, with a password, a private key or the SSH agent. The server's fingerprint is checked against known_hosts or confirmed the first time.

SSL/TLS

FieldDescription
Encrypt the connection (TLS)Keyspaces only accepts TLS connections.
On or off.
Trust the server certificateOn or off.

Advanced

FieldDescription
Region (datacenter)In Keyspaces the datacenter is the region.
Example: us-east-1

What the explorer shows

Under the connection: Keyspaces. Inside each one:

Query editor

The editor uses CQL, with completion for the connection's objects. Statements and commands run against the database selected in the tab.

Ready-made templates for new objects:

Tools for Amazon Keyspaces

Available

  • Graphical execution plans
  • Server monitor
  • Index usage
  • Create databases
  • Drop databases
  • Database properties
  • Visual designer for new objects
  • Compare and sync schemas
  • Native bulk load when migrating data
  • Backups

Not available for Amazon Keyspaces

  • Live query profiler
  • Sessions and running queries
  • End a session
  • Locks: who blocks whom
  • Cancel another session's query from the sessions list
  • Manual transactions (commit and rollback)
  • Relations in the ER diagram
  • Rename objects
  • Clone tables
  • Users and permissions

Why a tool doesn't apply to an engine, and the details of each one, are in the engine support reference.

Generated from the Amazon Keyspaces driver 0.1.10, which DBine downloads the first time you connect to Amazon Keyspaces.

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