By default it will use your user home `/Downloads` directory. If you would rather keep our JDBC jar elsewhere, just remember to change the path under driver files to match where you unziped your jar.

**Note**: If you are already a heavy DataGrip user, make sure to back up your existing settings and proceed with caution!įile –> Manage IDE Settings –> Import Settings or simply triple shift – > import settingsĪt this point you should be able to see a new database connection type called Astra: Astra DB connection Unzip SimbaCassandraJDBC42-2.zip Import IDE Settingsĭownload and import these settings.zip into DataGrip. Next unzip that file in your Downloads directory Grab and unzip the driverĭownoad the DataStax JDBC Driver which you can download here or at. It might be possible to unpack the secure connect bundle and pick out all the pieces needed to configure SSL with the DataGrip cassandra driver but that will be a topic for another day. Fortunately DataGrip allows us to add custom JDBC drivers with relative ease. For this we need a JDBC driver that is built ontop of a modern version of the DataStax Java driver. However, Astra is secure by default and the easiest way to connect to Astra is to use the secure connect bundle which effortlessly gives us mTLS. Yes this is true, there is an Apache Cassandra that ships with DataGrip. I thought DataGrip supported Cassandra out of the box The kind of thing you'd expect from our friends at IntelliJ. Big thank you to Donnie Roberson and Nick Panahi for their help getting the material ready for these posts.Īlthough I'm a fan of IDEA, Go Land, and GoLion, I confess I had not played with DataGrip until recently. As a result I am planning to do a series of quick posts around these starting with Intellij DataGrip. A few users have been asking me lately about connecting to DataStax Astra from different developer tools.

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