AtScale Supported Tools and Platforms
Supported Business Intelligence Tools
Excel and Power BI contain the required drivers. SQL tools such as Tableau must use one of the supported Hive drivers listed below. AtScale requires a Hive driver because it emulates the Hive SQL interface.
For more information, see Connecting to AtScale from business intelligence software.
Tableau
| Tool | Connection Type | Client Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Tableau Desktop 2024.1 | Thrift SQL | * See Vendor Drivers |
| Tableau Server 2023.3 | Thrift SQL | * See Vendor Drivers |
| Tableau Cloud 1 | Thrift SQL | * See Vendor Drivers |
1 With Tableau Bridge
Excel / Power BI
| Tool | Connection Type | Client Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Excel 2021 | XMLA | Embedded SQL Server Analysis Services |
| Excel 365 | XMLA | Embedded SQL Server Analysis Services |
| Power BI Desktop, May 2024 | XMLA, DAX, Live Connection | SQL Server Analysis Services database |
| Power BI Service | XMLA, DAX, Live Connection | SQL Server Analysis Services database |
Looker
| Tool | Connection Type | Client Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Looker 24.2 | PostgreSQL Connector | Embedded PostgreSQL Driver |
Microstrategy
AtScale offers Beta support for MicroStrategy. Official support is planned for future releases. If interested in beta testing, please contact your Account Executive.
Vendor Drivers
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Cloudera ODBC Driver for Apache Hive:
- Tableau 2021.x and 2021.x, tested with Cloudera Hive ODBC Driver 2.6.11 (64-bit)
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Simba Hive ODBC by AtScale, tested with Tableau 2022.x
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PostgreSQL JDBC Driver:
- Tableau 2023.x, tested with PostgreSQL JDBC Driver 8 42.7.8, 42.7.10
The PostgreSQL driver requires Tableau 2023.1 or higher.
Support Definitions
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Supported
Defined as the maintenance of a test suite that exercises the tool's core reporting features with AtScale. Some features may not be supported for reasons that include: a) the feature may not apply to an OLAP data model, b) AtScale has a different method of solving the same problem, c) the feature may not be a visualization feature, d) the feature has yet to be implemented.
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Beta Support
Means that there are no known blocking issues, however complete testing of all supported features is not complete.
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Unsupported Tools
The following BI tools have basic connection and query support, however they are not fully supported: Business Objects, Cognos, Saiku, Spotfire.
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Deprecated
Functionality will not be removed from AtScale for the period of time specified in the Support Policy. However no further bug fixes or enhancements will be scheduled for this feature. It is strongly recommended that customers retire or migrate reports that depend on deprecated functionality as soon as possible.
AtScale has experimental support for Qlik. To use Qlik with AtScale, you must have a special AtScale license. Ask your sales representative about obtaining a Qlik-enabled license.
Data Catalogs
- Alation 2023.3.3
- Collibra 2023.09
For more information, see Data Catalog API.
Directory Services
- Windows Active Directory 2012 (Supports Kerberos authentication protocol)
- Google Directory Service (NOTE: Does not support Kerberos, which is required for Tableau Single Sign-on)
- LDAP 2 compatible directory service providers
Data Warehouse Support Matrix
| Platform | Interactive Engines | Agg Build Engines | HLL/Portable | NTILE/Portable | TLS | KRB | PWD | Imp | Custom Auth | Part |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure SQL Server | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Azure Synapse | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | x | x | x | x | ||||
| CDP 7.1.93 | Impala 3.4.03, Livy | Hive, Impala 3.4.0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Databricks SQL | Databricks | Databricks | x2 | x2 | x | x | x | |||
| GBQ | GBQ | GBQ | x2 | x | x | x | x | |||
| IBM 11.5 | Db2 | Db2 | x | x | x | x | ||||
| InterSystems IRIS 2024.1 | InterSystems IRIS | InterSystems IRIS | x | x | x | |||||
| PostgreSQL 141 | Postgres | Postgres | x | x | x | |||||
| Redshift | Redshift | Redshift | x2 | x2 | x | x | x | |||
| SQL Server 2016 | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | Engine Compatibility in Version 130 (and above) | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |
| Snowflake | Snowflake | Snowflake | x2 | x2 | x | x | x |
For more information, see Adding Data Warehouses.
Data Warehouse Support Matrix Column Key
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| HLL | HyperLogLog - Support for Estimated Count Distinct |
| NTILE | Support for Quantiles |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| KRB | Kerberos Authentication Protocol |
| PWD | Username and Password based authentication |
| Imp | Impersonation - Proxy user query execution on behalf of another user |
| Custom Auth | Custom authentication mechanism, platform specific |
| Part | Partitioned Aggregate Table support |
A "secured" platform is a platform with Kerberos, TLS, and Impersonation compatibility.
Notes
1 PostgreSQL NUMERIC Data Type: AtScale does not support the NUMERIC(p,s), aka DECIMAL(p,s), data type on the PostgreSQL database.
2 This platform takes advantage of native functions for HLL and NTILE, and does not support AtScale sketch. Therefore it cannot be a source or target for preferred aggregate storage or virtualized aggregates.
3 If upgrading from HDP using Hive LLAP, note that CDP 7.1 requires configuring Impala to process Aggregate Build workloads.
Additional Data Warehouse Support Matrix Terms
| Data Warehouse Support Matrix Term | Description |
|---|---|
| ADLS | Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen 2) |
| Azure | Microsoft Azure compute cloud |
| CDP | Cloudera Data Platform |
| Databricks | Databricks |
| GBQ | Google BigQuery |
| GSuite | Google GSuite directory service |
| HDP | Hortonworks Data Platform Distribution |
| Hive | Vendor distributed Hive sql engine |
| Impala | Cloudera distributed Impala sql engine |
| IBM Db2 | International Business Machines DB2 RDBMS |
| On-prem | On-premise, dedicated hardware installation. On-premise virtual-machine installations are not supported. |
| PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL Relational Database |
| Redshift | Amazon AWS Redshift Data Warehouse |
| Spark | Hortonworks distributed Spark SQL engine |
| Snowflake | Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse |
| SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server |
| Tableau Svr Impr | Tableau Server Impersonation (aka Tableau Server Single Sign-on) |
Certified Web Browser
The only Web browser that the AtScale Design Center is certified for is Google Chrome.
Machines loading Design Center in browser require 8GB of local RAM. Customers with very large cubes, or who manage cube permissions at the user level with over 500 users, would benefit from 16GB of local RAM.
Operating System Support
The following Linux operating systems are officially supported with AtScale 2024.2.2:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 22.04