Direct Access to Persisted and Metadata Data

[vieirac1]

In case using an external application, is it possible to access data model metadata directly (without calling Thingworx services) and also persisted data (postgres or influxdb)?

Tks
Chris

[Constantine · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Yes, you can connect to Postgres database using connection that you configured during ThingWorx installation.

However, you should not do it for the whole array of different reasons -- security, caching, data integrity, performance, etc. Besides, ThingWorx tends to store a large part of its data in JSONs, requiring additional parsing after you do the query, so it may not be as practical as you might expect. 

My overall advise -- just don't do it, it's almost certainly a bad idea. ThingWorx offers a whole lot of integration mechanisms, all of which work better.

/ Constantine