Interfaces and drivers supported in Aiven for ClickHouse®
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Find out what technologies and tools you can use to interact with Aiven for ClickHouse®.

.. _clickhouse-interfaces:

Interfaces (protocols)
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Aiven for ClickHouse® supports the following fundamental underlying interfaces (protocols):

* ``HTTPS``
* ``Native TCP``
* ``MySQL Interface``

.. note::
   
   For security reasons, you need TLS (plaintext) to connect to Aiven for ClickHouse. 

.. topic:: Not supported interfaces (protocols)

   * `HTTP`
   * `gRPC`
   * `PostgreSQL`

.. seealso::
   
   For the full list of interfaces and protocols supported in ClickHouse, check out `Drivers and Interfaces <https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/overview>`_.

Drivers (libraries)
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There are a number of drivers (libraries) that use one of :ref:`the fundamental underlying interfaces supported in Aiven for ClickHouse <clickhouse-interfaces>` under the hood. It's up to you to pick up a driver (library) of your choice and use it for connecting to your Aiven for ClickHouse service.

.. seealso::

   * Check out :doc:`how to use different drivers (libraries) for connecting to Aiven for ClickHouse </docs/products/clickhouse/howto/list-connect-to-service>`.
   
   * For the full list of drivers and libraries that support connecting to ClickHouse, check out `Drivers and Interfaces <https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/overview>`_.

.. note::

   You can connect to Aiven for ClickHouse with any driver that uses TLS and one of the supported protocols.

Related pages
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* :doc:`How to connect to Aiven for ClickHouse using different libraries </docs/products/clickhouse/howto/list-connect-to-service>`
* `Drivers and interfaces supported in ClickHouse <https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/overview>`_