CData Tableau Connector for Google Cloud Storage

Overview

The CData Tableau Connector for Google Cloud Storage offers self-service integration with Tableau. The connector facilitates live access to Google Cloud Storage data in Tableau using the connection window. The connector also provides direct querying to visualize and analyze Google Cloud Storage data.

The connector supports Tableau Desktop 2020.1 or later and Tableau Prep 2020.4.1 or later. For older versions of Tableau, the CData ODBC Driver for Google Cloud Storage or the CData JDBC Driver for Google Cloud Storage can serve as an alternative means of connecting to Google Cloud Storage data in Tableau.

Getting Started

See Getting Started for a guide to create a Google Cloud Storage Data Source in Tableau. The guide will walk you through Installing the Connector and then Configuring a Connection via the connection builder.

Once a connection has been configured, see Getting Data to set up a data source that offers live connectivity to Google Cloud Storage.

Advanced Features

Advanced Features details additional features supported by the connector, such as defining user defined views, ssl configuration, remoting, caching, firewall/proxy settings, and advanced logging.

Using the Connector

See Using the Connector to customize data access and visualize data. You can further customize the exact Google Cloud Storage data pulled by Using Custom SQL Queries.

Refer to Visualizing Data to create and work with Tableau visualizations.

See User Defined Views to construct virtual tables whose contents are determined by a pre-configured query, which will then be discovered among existing table metadata.

Data Model

See Data Model for information on the available database objects and how to use SQL to work with Google Cloud Storage APIs. This section provides more detailed information on querying specific Google Cloud Storage entities.

Connection String Options

The Connection properties describe the various options that can be used to establish a connection.