Appendix B Supported Data Source Connections

Tableau supports a wide variety of connections for both the Windows and Mac OS X editions. The connections listed in this appendix are updated through Tableau 9.1. Consult Tableau Software’s Support website for Drivers and Activation for the latest connections: www.tableau.com/support/drivers.

Windows Connections

Tableau supports the following Windows connections:

  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce drivers for Hive and Impala)
  • Amazon Redshift (32- and 64-bit)
  • Aster Data nCluster (Teradata)
  • Cloudera Hadoop Hive
  • Cloudera Hadoop Impala
  • DataStax Enterprise
  • ExaSol EXASolution
  • Firebird
  • Google Analytics
  • Google BigQuery (32- and 64-bit)
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Greenplum (Pivotal)
  • Hortonworks Hadoop Hive
  • HP Vertica
  • IBM BigInsights (32- and 64-bit)
  • IBM DB2 (32- and 64-bit)
  • IBM Netezza 4.6 or later
  • MarkLogic (32- and 64-bit)
  • MapR
  • Microsoft Access 2007 or later
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (32- and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Database (32- and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
  • Microsoft PowerPivot (32- and 64-bit)
  • Tableau Add-in for Microsoft PowerPivot (32- and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later
  • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2000 and later (32- and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server PDW (32- and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for MS Excel 2008, 2010 (32- and 64-bit)
  • MySQL
  • Odata
  • ODBC
  • Oracle Database (32- and 64-bit)
  • Oracle Essbase (32- and 64-bit)
  • ParAccel
  • PostgreSQL
  • Progress OpenEdge
  • Salesforce.com, including ...

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