ibis.backends.clickhouse.connect

ibis.backends.clickhouse.connect(host='localhost', port=9000, database='default', user='default', password='', client_name='ibis', compression='lz4')

Create an ClickhouseClient for use with Ibis.

Parameters

  • host (str, optional) – Host name of the clickhouse server

  • port (int, optional) – Clickhouse server’s port

  • database (str, optional) – Default database when executing queries

  • user (str, optional) – User to authenticate with

  • password (str, optional) – Password to authenticate with

  • client_name (str, optional) – This will appear in clickhouse server logs

  • compression (str, optional) – Weather or not to use compression. Default is lz4 if installed else False. Possible choices: lz4, lz4hc, quicklz, zstd, True, False True is equivalent to ‘lz4’.

Examples

>>> import ibis
>>> import os
>>> clickhouse_host = os.environ.get('IBIS_TEST_CLICKHOUSE_HOST',
...                                  'localhost')
>>> clickhouse_port = int(os.environ.get('IBIS_TEST_CLICKHOUSE_PORT',
...                                      9000))
>>> client = ibis.clickhouse.connect(
...     host=clickhouse_host,
...     port=clickhouse_port
... )
>>> client  
<ibis.clickhouse.client.ClickhouseClient object at 0x...>
Returns

Return type

ClickhouseClient