TABLEAU DESKTOP

Tableau Desktop can connect to hundreds of data sources in a very simple way. No technical knowledge is needed. The following data sources can be connected to Tableau Desktop.

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DATA SOURCES
  • Tableau Server Data Sources
  • Actian Matrix*
  • Actian Vector 2.0 or later*
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Elastic MapReduce
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Anaplan
  • Apache Drill
  • Aster database
  • Box
  • Cisco Information Server
  • Cloudera Hadoop Hive and Impala, Hive CDH3u1 (which includes Hive .71 or later), Impala 1.0 or later (incl. Kerberos support for Impala)
  • DataStax Enterprise Edition 2.2 or later*
  • Denodo
  • Dropbox
  • EXASOL 4.2 or later*
  • Firebird 2.1.4 or later
  • Google Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Sheets
  • Hortonworks Hadoop Hive 1.1 or later
  • HP Vertica 6.x or later
  • IBM BigInsights*
  • IBM DB2  9.1 or later for Linux, UNIX, or Windows(available on Tableau Desktop/Server on Windows only)
  • IBM PDA Netezza 4.6 or later*
  • JSON files
  • Kognitio

 

  • MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop 2.x or later*
  • Marketo
  • MarkLogic
  • MemSQL
  • Microsoft Access 2007 or later*
  • Microsoft Azure Data Lake
  • Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse
  • Microsoft Azure DB
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • Microsoft PowerPivot 2008 or later*
  • Microsoft SharePoint Lists*
  • Microsoft Spark on HDInsight
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later (incl. support for Kerberos)
  • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 or later, multi-dimensional mode only* (incl. support for Kerberos)
  • Microsoft SQL Server PDW V2 or later
  • MonetDB
  • MongoDB BI
  • MySQL 5.0 or later
  • OData
  • Oracle Database 11.0 or later
  • Oracle Eloqua
  • Oracle Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1 or later*
  • PDF
  • Pivotal Greenplum 4.x or later
  • PostgreSQL 8.3 or later

 

  • Presto
  • Progress OpenEdge 10.2B, patch 4 or later*
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce.com, including Force.com and Database.com
  • SAP HANA 1.0035 or later
  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.00 with SP20+ recommended; also requires SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 or later client*
  • SAP Sybase ASE 15.5 or later*
  • SAP Sybase IQ 15 or later*
  • ServiceNow ITSM
  • Snowflake
  • Spark SQL requires Apache Spark 1.2.1 or later
  • Spatial Files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
  • Splunk Enterprise 6 or later*
  • Statistical Files: SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav) and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
  • Tableau Data Extract
  • Teradata V2 R6.2 or later
  • Teradata Aster Data nCluster 5.0 or later
  • Teradata OLAP Connector 14.10 or later*
  • Text files, including comma separated value files (.csv)
  • Additional databases and applications that are ODBC 3.0 compliant
  • Tons of web data with the Web Data Connector

* Available for Windows only