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title: Ascend.io
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## Ascend.io

The recommended connector library to Ascend.io is [impyla](https://github.com/cloudera/impyla).

The expected connection string is formatted as follows:

```
ascend://{username}:{password}@{hostname}:{port}/{database}?auth_mechanism=PLAIN;use_ssl=true
```