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# Vertica

> OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is a columnar database designed for big data analytics.

[OpenText Analytics Database][opentext-adb] (Vertica) is a columnar database
designed for big data analytics.

## Prerequisites

* The hostname for the [Vertica][vertica] database server
* The username/password for the [Vertica][vertica] database server
* The name of the database to use within the [Vertica][vertica] database server

## Setup

### Manual

Add the following to a `.env` file in your Cube project:

```dotenv theme={null}
CUBEJS_DB_TYPE=vertica
CUBEJS_DB_HOST=my.vertica.host
CUBEJS_DB_USER=vertica_user
CUBEJS_DB_PASS=**********
CUBEJS_DB_SCHEMA=my_vertica_schema
```

## Environment Variables

| Environment Variable | Description | Possible Values | Required |
| - | - | - | :-: |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_HOST`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_host) | The host URL for a database | A valid database host URL | ✅ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_PORT`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_port) | The port for the database connection | A valid port number | ❌ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_USER`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_user) | The username used to connect to the database | A valid database username | ✅ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_PASS`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_pass) | The password used to connect to the database | A valid database password | ✅ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_SCHEMA`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_schema) | The schema within the database to connect to | A valid schema name within a Presto database | ✅ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_SSL`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_ssl) | If `true`, enables SSL encryption for database connections from Cube | `true`, `false` | ❌ |
| [`CUBEJS_DB_MAX_POOL`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_max_pool) | The maximum number of concurrent database connections to pool. Default is `8` | A valid number | ❌ |
| [`CUBEJS_CONCURRENCY`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_concurrency) | The number of [concurrent queries][ref-data-source-concurrency] to the data source | A valid number | ❌ |

[ref-data-source-concurrency]: /admin/connect-to-data/concurrency#data-source-concurrency

## SSL

To enable SSL-encrypted connections between Cube and Verica, set the
[`CUBEJS_DB_SSL`](/reference/configuration/environment-variables#cubejs_db_ssl) environment variable to `true`. For more information on how to
configure custom certificates, please check out [Enable SSL Connections to the
Database][ref-recipe-enable-ssl].

[opentext-adb]: https://www.opentext.com/products/analytics-database?o=vert

[vertica]: https://www.vertica.com/documentation/vertica/all/

[ref-recipe-enable-ssl]: /recipes/configuration/using-ssl-connections-to-data-source