JDBC Connection Properties

You use connection properties to configure the connection between your JDBC client application and your Vertica database. The properties provide the basic information about the connections, such as the server name and port number to use to connect to your database. They also let you tune the performance of your connection and enable logging.

You can set a connection property in any of three ways:

  • Include the property name and value as part of the connection string you pass to the DriverManager.getConnection() method.
  • Set the properties in a Properties object, and then pass it to the DriverManager.getConnection()method.
  • Use the VerticaConnection.setProperty() method. With this approach, you can change only those connection properties that remain changeable after the connection has been established.

In addition, some of the standard JDBC connection properties have getters and setters on the Connection interface (such as Connection.setAutocommit()).

Connection Properties

The properties in the following table can only be set before you open the connection to the database. Two of them are required for every connection.

Property Description

ConnSettings

A string containing SQL statements that the JDBC driver automatically runs after it connects to the database. You can use this property to set the locale or schema search path, or perform other configuration that the connection requires.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

DisableCopyLocal

When set to true, disables file-based COPY LOCAL operations, including copying data from local files and using local files to store data and exceptions. You can use this property to prevent users from writing to and copying from files on a Vertica host, including an MC host.

Required?: No

Default Value: false

Label

Sets a label for the connection on the server. This value appears in the client_label column of the V_MONITOR.SESSIONS system table.

Required?: No

Default Value: jdbc-driver_version-random_number

LoginTimeout

The number of seconds Vertica waits for a connection to be established to the database before throwing a SQLException.

Required?: No

Default Value: 0 (no TCP timeout)

SSL

When set to true, use SSL to encrypt the connection to the server. Vertica must be configured to handle SSL connections before you can establish an SSL-encrypted connection to it. See TLS Protocol in the Administrator's Guide. This property has been deprecated in favor of the TLSmode property.

Required?: No

Default Value: false

TLSmode

Identifies the security level that Vertica applies to the JDBC connection. Vertica must be configured to handle TLS/SSL connections before you can establish an encrypted connection to it. See TLS Protocol in the Administrator's Guide. Valid values are:

  • disable - JDBC connects using plain text and implements no security measures.
  • require - JDBC connects using TLS/SSL.
  • verify-ca - JDBC connects using TLS/SSL and confirms that the server certificate has been signed by the certificate authority. This setting is equivalent to the deprecated ssl=true property.
  • verify-full - JDBC connects using TLS/SSL, confirms that the server certificate has been signed by the certificate authority, and verifies that the host name matches the name provided in the server certificate.

If this property and the ssl property are set, this property takes precedence.

Required?: No

Default Value: false

HostnameVerifier

If TLSmode is set to verify-full, this property the fully qualified domain name of the verifier that you want to confirm the host name.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

Password

The password to use to log into the database.

Required?: Yes

Default Value: none

User

The database user name to use to connect to the database.

Required?: Yes

Default Value: none

ConnectionLoadBalance

A Boolean value indicating whether the client is willing to have its connection redirected to another host in the Vertica database. This setting has an effect only if the server has also enabled connection load balancing. See About Native Connection Load Balancing in the Administrator's Guide for more information about native connection load balancing.

Required?: No

Default Value: false

BackupServerNode

A string containing the host name or IP address of one or more hosts in the database. If the connection to the host specified in the connection string times out, the client attempts to connect to any host named in this string.The host name or IP address can also include a colon followed by the port number for the database. If no port number is specified, the client uses the standard port number (5433) . Separate multiple host name or IP address entries with commas.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

PreferredAddressFamily

The IP version to use if the client and server have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and you have provided a host name. Valid values are:

  • ipv4—Connect to the server using IPv4.
  • ipv6—Connect to the server using IPv6.
  • none—Use the IP address provided by the DNS server.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

KeyStorePath

The server path to a .JKS file containing your private keys and their corresponding certificate chains. For information on creating a keystore, refer to documentation for your development environment. For information on creating a keystore, refer to the Java documentation.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

KeyStorePassword

The password protecting the keystore file. If individual keys are also encrypted, the keystore file password must match the password for a key within the keystore.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

TrustStorePath

The local path to a .JKS truststore file containing certificates from authorities you trust.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

TrustStorePassword

The password protecting the truststore file.

Required?: No

Default Value: none

General Properties

The following properties can be set after the connection is established. None of these properties are required.

Property Description

AutoCommit

Controls whether the connection automatically commits transactions. Set this parameter to false to prevent the connection from automatically committing its transactions. You often want to do this when you are bulk loading multiple batches of data and you want the ability to roll back all of the loads if an error occurs.

Previous Property NameNote: This property was called defaultAutoCommit in previous versions of the Vertica JDBC driver.

Set After Connection: Connection.setAutoCommit()

Default Value: true

DirectBatchInsert

Determines whether a batch insert stored data directly into ROS (true) or using ClosedAUTO mode (false).

When you load data using AUTO mode, Vertica inserts the data first into the WOS. If the WOS is full, Vertica inserts the data directly into ROS. For details about load options, see Choosing a Load Method.

Set After Connection: VerticaConnection.setProperty()

Default Value: false

MultipleActiveResultSets

Allows more than one active result set on a single connection via MultipleActiveResultSets (MARS).

If both MultipleActiveResultSets and ResultBufferSize are turned on, MultipleActiveResultSets takes precedence. The connection does not provide an error, however ResultBufferSize is ignored.

Set After Connection: VerticaConnection.setProperty()

Default Value: false

ReadOnly

When set to true, makes the data connection read-only. Any queries attempting to update the database using a read-only connection cause a SQLException.

Set After Connection: Connection.setReadOnly()

Default Value: false

ResultBufferSize

Sets the size of the buffer the Vertica JDBC driver uses to temporarily store result sets. A value of 0 means ResultBufferSize is turned off.

Note: This property was named maxLRSMemory in previous versions of the Vertica JDBC driver.

Set After Connection: VerticaConnection.setProperty()

Default Value: 8912 (8KB)

SearchPath

Sets the schema search path for the connection. This value is a string containing a comma-separated list of schema names. See Setting Search Paths in the Administrator's Guide for more information on the schema search path.

Set After Connection: VerticaConnection.setProperty()

Default Value: "$user", public, v_catalog, v_monitor, v_internal

ThreePartNaming

A Boolean value that controls how DatabaseMetaData reports the catalog name. When set to true, the database name is returned as the catalog name in the database metadata. When set to false, NULL is returned as the catalog name.

Enable this option if your client software is set up to get the catalog name from the database metadata for use in a three-part name reference.

Set After Connection: VerticaConnection.setProperty()

Default Value: true

TransactionIsolation

Sets the isolation level of the transactions that use the connection. See Changing the Transaction Isolation Level for details.

Note: In previous versions of the Vertica JDBC driver, this property was only available using a getter and setter on the PGConnection object. You can now set it in the same way as other connection properties.

Set After Connection: Connection.setTransactionIsolation()

Default Value: TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED

Logging Properties

The properties that control client logging must be set before the connection is opened. None of these properties are required, and none can be changed after the Connection object has been instantiated.

Property Description

LogLevel

Sets the type of information logged by the JDBC driver. The value is set to one of the following values:

  • "DEBUG"
  • "ERROR"
  • "TRACE"
  • "WARNING"
  • "INFO"
  • "OFF"

Default Value: "OFF"

LogNameSpace

Restricts logging to just messages generated by a specific packages. Valid values are:

  • com.vertica — All messages generated by the JDBC driver
  • com.vertica.jdbc — All messages generated by the top-level JDBC API
  • com.vertica.jdbc.kv — A ll messages generated by the JDBC KV API)
  • com.vertica.jdbc.core — Connection and statement settings
  • com.vertica.jdbc.io — Client/server protocol messages
  • com.vertica.jdbc.util — Miscellaneous utilities
  • com.vertica.jdbc.dataengine — Query execution and result set iteration
  • com.vertica.dataengine — Query execution and result set iteration

Default Value: none

LogPath

Sets the path where the log file is written.

Default Value: The current working directory

Kerberos Connection Parameters

Use the following parameters to set the service and host name principals for client authentication using Kerberos.

Parameters Description
JAASConfigName

Provides the name of the JAAS configuration that contains the JAAS Krb5LoginModule and its settings

Default Value: verticajdbc

KerberosServiceName

Provides the service name portion of the Vertica Kerberos principal, for example: vertica/host@EXAMPLE.COM

Default Value: vertica

KerberosHostname

Provides the instance or host name portion of theVertica Kerberos principal, for example: vertica/host@EXAMPLE.COM

Default Value: Value specified in the servername connection string property

Routable Connection API Connection Parameters

Use the following parameters to set properties to enable and configure the connection for Routable Connection lookups.

Parameters Description
EnableRoutableQueries

Enables Routable Connection lookup. See Routing JDBC Queries Directly to a Single Node

Default Value: false

FailOnMultiNodePlans

If the query plan requires more than one node, then the query fails. Only applicable when EnableRoutableQueries = true.

Default Value: true

MetadataCacheLifetime

The time in seconds to keep projection metadata. Only applicable when EnableRoutableQueries = true.

Default Value:

MaxPooledConnections

Cluster-wide maximum number of connections to keep in the VerticaRoutableConnection’s internal pool. Only applicable when EnableRoutableQueries = true.

Default Value: 20

MaxPooledConnections
PerNode

Per-node maximum number of connections to keep in the VerticaRoutableConnection’s internal pool. Only applicable when EnableRoutableQueries = true.

Default Value: 5

 

You can also use VerticaConnection.setProperty() method to set properties that have standard JDBC Connection setters, such as AutoCommit.

For information about manipulating these attributes, see Setting and Getting Connection Property Values.