Accessing WRDS Cloud

Learn how the WRDS Cloud can be used to execute research and strategy development.

  • How to access WRDS Support Section for Cloud needs
  • Which languages are supported on WRDS Cloud
  • WRDS Web-query -vs- the WRDS Cloud
  • Head nodes -vs- compute nodes

The WRDS Cloud is a high-performance research computing center that you access from your computer using an SSH connection.

WRDS Cloud software for your research needs:

  • SAS 9.4
  • R 3.5
  • Python 3.6 and 2.7
  • Stata 15 (requires special subscription agreement with StataCorp)

And, supports remote access from:

  • MATLAB 2016a +
  • Native PostgreSQL clients
  • ODBC- or JDBC-compliant clients