Lightning will be discontinued and no longer maintained. We recommend that you use Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) instead of Lightning to process your business data. This topic describes the overall process of replacing Lightning with Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition).

Processes of using Lightning and Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition)

The following figure compares the process of using Lightning with the process of using Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition). Process comparison

Process of replacing Lightning with Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition)

The process of replacing Lightning with Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) to connect to business intelligence (BI) tools involves the following steps:

  1. Purchase a Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) instance and verify the details of the purchased instance in the Hologres console.
  2. Create a database and specify a permission model.
  3. Connect a BI tool to the instance to perform visualized data analysis.
    Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) is compatible with PostgreSQL and can be directly connected to various BI tools. When you connect the purchased instance to a BI tool that is originally connected to Lightning, you must replace the endpoint of Lightning with the endpoint of Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) before you perform visualized data analysis. For more information about the BI tools that you can connect to Hologres, see Overview.

Grant user permissions

Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition) and Lightning use different permission control methods. After you replace Lightning with Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition), you must grant necessary permissions to a RAM user to use Hologres Shared Cluster (BI-based MaxCompute Acceleration Edition). For more information, see Grant the development permissions on a Hologres instance to RAM users.