Connect to Census

Census is a reverse ETL platform that syncs customer data from you lakehouse into downstream business tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google Ads.

You can integrate your Databricks SQL warehouses and Databricks clusters with Census.

Connect to Census using Partner Connect

To connect your Databricks workspace to Census using Partner Connect, see Connect to reverse ETL partners using Partner Connect.

Note

Partner Connect only supports SQL warehouses for Census. To connect a cluster to Census, connect to Census manually.

Connect to Census manually

This section describes how to connect an existing SQL warehouse or cluster in your Databricks workspace to Census manually.

Note

For Databricks SQL warehouses, you can connect to Census using Partner Connect to simplify the experience.

Requirements

Before you connect to Census manually, you need the following:

A cluster or SQL warehouse in your Databricks workspace.
- Compute configuration reference.
- Create a SQL warehouse.
The connection details for your cluster or SQL warehouse, specifically the Server Hostname, Port, and HTTP Path values.
- Get connection details for a Databricks compute resource.
A Databricks personal access token. To create a personal access token, follow the steps in Databricks personal access tokens for workspace users.

Note

As a security best practice when you authenticate with automated tools, systems, scripts, and apps, Databricks recommends that you use OAuth tokens.

If you use personal access token authentication, Databricks recommends using personal access tokens belonging to service principals instead of workspace users. To create tokens for service principals, see Manage tokens for a service principal.

Steps to connect

To connect to Census manually, follow Databricks in the Census documentation.

Additional resources

Explore the following Census resources: