This topic describes how to use Hologres.
Hologres is a real-time data warehousing service designed for enterprise-level analysis and service integration. Hologres provides real-time data writes and updates, as well as queries of petabytes of data.
If you are new to Hologres, we recommend that you read the following topics:
- What is Hologres?: provides an overview of Hologres and describes its features and use scenarios.
- Billing methods: introduces the pricing and billing methods of Hologres.
The following flowchart shows the procedure to use Hologres.
- Create an Alibaba Cloud account: Before you use Hologres, you must have an Alibaba Cloud account ready. This topic describes how to create an Alibaba Cloud account and create an AccessKey pair for the account.
- Purchase a Hologres instance: After you have created an Alibaba Cloud account, you must purchase a Hologres instance. This topic describes how to use your Alibaba Cloud account to purchase a Hologres instance.
- Create a database: After you have purchased a Hologres instance, you must create a database. This topic describes how to create a database in the Hologres console or from the PostgreSQL client.
- Connect to the development tool: After you have created a database, you must connect to the development tool to develop and manage the database. This topic describes how to develop and manage the database in the HoloWeb console.
- Query data in Hologres: This topic describes how to import and query data in foreign tables and internal tables in Hologres.