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 Force.com and Database.com
• SAP BW
• SAP HANA
• SAP Sybase ASE 15.5 or later
• SAP Sybase IQ 15 or later
• Spark SQL
• Spark on Azure HDInsight
• Splunk
• Tableau Data Extract
• Teradata
• Teradata OLAP
• Teradata Unity
• Text file—comma-separated value (.csv) files
• Vectorwise

Mac OS X Connections

Tableau Software supports the following data source connections for OS X:

• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
• Amazon Redshift
• Cloudera Hive
• Cloudera Impala
• Firebird
• Google Analytics
• Google BigQuery
• Google Cloud SQL
• Hortonworks Hadoop Hive
• HP Vertica
• MapR Hadoop Hive
• Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later
• Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace Data
• MySQL
• OData
• Oracle
• Pivotal Greenplum
• PostgreSQL
• Salesforce.com, including Force.com and Database.com
• Spark SQL
• Tableau Data Extract
• Tableau Server
• Teradata
• Teradata Unity
• Text file—comma-separated value (.csv) files
• ODBC 3.0 (and additional data sources compliant with this standard)