GUI clients

Use popular third party clients with YugabyteDB

This page documents the preview (v2.21) version. Preview includes features under active development and is for development and testing only. For production, use the stable (v2024.1) version.

Because YugabyteDB is compatible with PostgreSQL and Cassandra, you can use third-party clients to connect to your YugabyteDB clusters.

Tools

YugabyteDB prerequisites

To use these tools with YugabyteDB, you should have a cluster up and running, and you will need to know the connection parameters required by the client to connect to your cluster.

To create a local cluster, follow the steps in Quick start.

To create a cluster in YugabyteDB Aeon, follow the steps in Create a cluster. In addition, do the following:

Download the cluster certificate; YugabyteDB Aeon requires the use of TLS
Add your computer to the cluster IP allow list; this allows your computer to access the cluster

Connection parameters

To connect, follow the client's configuration steps, and use the following values:

Setting	Local installation	YugabyteDB Aeon
Hostname	`localhost` or the IP address of a node	The cluster hostname as displayed on the cluster Settings tab
Port	`5433` (YSQL) `9042` (YCQL)	`5433` (YSQL) `9042` (YCQL)
Database	Database name (`yugabyte` is the default)	Database name (`yugabyte` is the default)
Username	`yugabyte` or `cassandra`	Database username (`admin` is the default)
Password	`yugabyte` or `cassandra` Leave blank if authentication is not enabled	Database user password

YugabyteDB Aeon requires TLS. Use the root.ca certificate you downloaded for connections to YugabyteDB Aeon clusters.