# Whats the database being used behind the Operational Data Store of Cumulocity

**URL:** https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203
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**Tags:** cumulocity
**Created:** [February 21, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203 "2023-02-21T04:18:06Z")
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### Author: ![Sam123](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.cumulocity.com/sam123/32/14460_2.png) [@Sam123](https://community.cumulocity.com/u/Sam123)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203/1 "2023-02-21T04:18:06Z")

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#### What product/components do you use and which version/fix level are you on?

Cumulocity Iot Latest

#### Is your question related to the free trial, or to a production (customer) instance?

Free trial

#### What are you trying to achieve? Please describe it in detail.

In which database does cumulocity stores its data and is there any other way to access the data apart from the cumulocity APIs

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### Author: ![Nick\_Ponomar1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.cumulocity.com/nick_ponomar1/32/2892_2.png) [@Nick\_Ponomar1](https://community.cumulocity.com/u/Nick_Ponomar1)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203/2 "2023-02-21T06:07:14Z")

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Cumulocity uses MongoDB internally. There is no api to access db directly.  
What are trying to achieve?

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### Author: ![Sam123](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.cumulocity.com/sam123/32/14460_2.png) [@Sam123](https://community.cumulocity.com/u/Sam123)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203/4 "2023-02-21T07:59:01Z")

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Hi Nick,  
Thank you for your response. I just want to know if there is any other way to access the database of cumulocity other than the rest apis provided.

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### Author: ![Stefan\_Witschel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.cumulocity.com/stefan_witschel/32/31955_2.png) [@Stefan\_Witschel](https://community.cumulocity.com/u/Stefan_Witschel)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203/5 "2023-02-21T08:00:53Z")

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Hi Samanyu,

no, for security and data consistency reasons there isn’t. But you can offload the data using the [data hub](https://cumulocity.com/guides/datahub/datahub-overview/) to any data lake and use any SQL client to work with the offloaded data.

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### Author: ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.cumulocity.com/system/32/31990_2.png) [@system](https://community.cumulocity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/whats-the-database-being-used-behind-the-operational-data-store-of-cumulocity/7203/6 "2023-08-20T08:01:02Z")

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