MarkLogic Connector for Tableau provides a fast, easy, real-time connection to full Tableau functionality. It enables you to unearth the value in your data with MarkLogic’s integration, search, governance, and built-in curation capabilities, and the dynamic visual analysis and reporting of Tableau. It’s available on Tableau’s connector extension gallery.
Developed on top of the Tableau SDK, the Tableau Connector for MarkLogic offers reliability and ease of connection for business analysts, data engineers, or anyone who needs to provide data to end-users downstream.
Major Benefits
- Fast and easy – Simple Tableau connection to fit-for-purpose data in MarkLogic for quick, real-time data access for SQL-based analytics.
- Twice the power – Combine MarkLogic’s full search and query capabilities on curated, governed, secure data with full Tableau functionality
- Integrate your data and use all your data – MarkLogic can handle all your data in any format so you can gain insight from all data, not just the data that’s convenient to analyze
- Ensure data quality – MarkLogic enables you to store metadata, source data, and canonical data all in a single document
Getting Started
MarkLogic Connector for Tableau works on Mac, Windows, and Linux and is built on top of PostgreSQL’s open-source ODBC driver. Users can download the connector, move the downloaded taco file to the “My Tableau Repository” folder, start Tableau and select the MarkLogic connector under the “Connect” tab, and that’s it. This reduces friction in getting your data to Tableau and your data users can immediately start analyzing the data.
To use the MarkLogic Connector for Tableau, install and configure the latest ODBC driver and install Tableau.
For more detail on how to set up ODBC, please visit our written tutorial for Mac OSX and our ODBC setup docs page for Windows and Linux instructions.
Alternately, you can still connect to Tableau via REST for visualizations of unstructured hierarchical data sources.