Supported Data Sources and File Formats
Alteryx connects to a variety of data sources. Alteryx can read, write, or read and write, dependent upon the data source.
Adobe | Adobe Analytics | Read-only | |
Alteryx | Alteryx Database | .yxdb | Read, Write |
Alteryx Calgary | .cydb | Read-only | |
Alteryx Spatial ZIP | .sz | Read, Write | |
Amazon | Amazon Athena | Read, Write | |
Amazon Aurora | Read, Write | ||
Amazon Redshift | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Amazon Redshift Spectrum | Read, Write | ||
Amazon S3 | Read, Write | ||
ASCII | Flat ASCII | .flat | Read, Write |
Apache | Avro | .avro | Read, Write |
Cassandra | Read, Write | ||
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) | Read, Write | ||
Hive | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Apache Spark Direct | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Apache Spark ODBC | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Apache Spark on Databricks | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Apache Spark on Microsoft Azure HDInsight | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Cloudera | Cloudera Impala | Read, Write, In-DB | |
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) | Read, Write | ||
Hive | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
CSV | Comma Separated Value | .csv | Read, Write |
Databricks | Databricks | Read, Write, In-DB | |
dBase | dBase | .dbf | Read, Write |
ESRI | ESRI GeoDatabase | .gdb | Read, Write |
ESRI Personal GeoDatabase | .mdb | Read-only | |
ESRI Shapefile | .shp | Read, Write | |
EXASOL | EXASOL | Read, Write, In-DB | |
GIS | GIS | .grc, .grd | Read-only |
Google Analytics | Read-only | ||
Google BigQuery | Read, Write | ||
Google Earth/Google Maps | .kml | Read, Write | |
Google Sheets | Read, Write | ||
Gzip | Gzip | .gz, .tgz | Read-only |
Hortonworks | Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) | Read, Write | |
Hive | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
HTML | HyperText Markup Language | .htm | Write-only |
IBM | IBM DB2 | Read, Write | |
IBM Netezza | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
IBM SPSS | .sav | Read, Write | |
JSON | JSON | .json | Read, Write |
MapInfo | MapInfo Professional Interchange Format | .mif | Read, Write |
MapInfo Professional Table | .tab | Read, Write | |
MapR | Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) | Read, Write | |
Hive | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
MariaDB | MariaDB | Read, Write, In-DB | |
Marketo | Marketo | Read, Write | |
Microsoft | Microsoft Access 2000-2003 | .mdb | Read, Write |
Microsoft Analytics Platform System | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store | Read, Write | ||
Microsoft Azure SQL Database | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Read-only | ||
Microsoft Dynamics CRM | Read, Write | ||
Microsoft Excel 1997-2003 | .xls | Read, Write | |
Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 | .xlsx | Read, Write | |
Microsoft Excel Binary Requires 2010 Access driver |
.xlsb | Read, Write | |
Microsoft Excel Macro Enabled | .xlsm | Read, Write | |
Microsoft Access 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 Requires Access driver |
.accdb | Read, Write | |
Microsoft OneDrive | Write-only | ||
Microsoft Power BI | Write-only | ||
Microsoft SharePoint | Read, Write | ||
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016 | Read, Write, In-DB | ||
MongoDB | MongoDB | Read, Write | |
MySQL | MySQL | Read, Write, In-DB | |
NetSuite | NetSuite | Read-only | |
OpenGIS | Geography Markup Language | .gml | Write-only |
Oracle | Oracle | Read, Write, In-DB, Predictive | |
Pivotal | Pivotal Greenplum | Read, Write, In-DB | |
PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | Read, Write, In-DB | |
Qlik | QlikView | .qvx | Read, Write |
Salesforce | Salesforce | Read, Write | |
SAP | SAP Hana | Read, Write, In-DB | |
SAS | SAS | .sas7bdat | Read, Write |
Snowflake | Snowflake | Read, Write, In-DB | |
SQLite | SQLite | .sqlite | Read, Write |
SRC Geography | SRC Geography | .geo | Read, Write |
Tableau | Tableau Data Extract | .tde | Write-only |
Tableau Hyper Data Extract | .hyper | Read, Write | |
Teradata | Teradata | Read, Write, In-DB | |
Teradata Aster | Read-only | ||
Text | Text | .txt, .asc | Read-only |
Vertica | Vertica | Read, Write, In-DB | |
XML | Extensible Markup Language | .xml | Read-only |
Zip Files | Zip | .zip | Read-only |