Early Preview Connection Types

Select connection types might be made available in Alteryx Analytics Cloud (AAC) prior to general availability and full support. These Early Preview connection types are intended to enable customers to get connected to their source data to begin building their data wrangling pipelines. The currently available Early Preview connection types are described below.

General Limitations

Warning

Early Preview connection types provide early access to and use of new connection types so that you may begin working with data in your connected datastores. Avoid deploying Early Preview connections into a production environment before testing in Dev/Testing environments. To send feedback, please contact Alteryx Support.

Unless explicitly stated below, each Early Preview connection type has the following limitations:

Cloud/SaaS only. Early Preview connections are not available for self-managed deployments.
Read-only. Writing back through the connection is not supported.
Authentication. Access to the datastore must be completed through the listed and supported method for the connection type. Depending on the connection, the method may be limited to one of the following:
- Basic credentials (username/password)
- APIKey
- SecurityToken
- OAuth 2.0
- Methods of authentication not listed with the connection type are not supported.
Limited data type support. All imported data is mapped to the following basic data types:
- String
- Integer
- Decimal
- Boolean
- Other data types, such Datetime, are not officially supported for Early Preview connections. They might be processed properly.

Additional possible limitations include:

SSO is unlikely to be supported.
Connect String Options cannot be applied to data modeling.
Import uses a default schema, which may not show all of the available tables in the connected database.
Of the available tables, some tables may not show all columns due to limitations in the data source.
Performance through an Early Preview connection may be slower than for generally available connections.
Connector-specific functionality that may require additional engineering may not be supported through the Early Preview connection.

Support Policy

Early Preview connections are made available in AAC with the intention of making them generally available and fully supported at some point in the future.

These connections are supported with the following limitations:

These connections are supported only for importing datasets and generating samples.
The configuration, supported use cases, supported data types, and limitations are subject to change prior to making the connection generally available.
While it is the intention of Alteryx to make all Early Preview connections generally available for our customers, Alteryx reserves the right to remove the connection from availability at all or to change the connection at any time prior to general availability.
Bugs found in Early Preview connections may not be fixed before general availability.

Warning

Avoid using Early Preview connections in production environments without testing them first in Development/Staging environments.

Coming Soon connections:

Connections that are labeled Coming Soon in AAC might be made available in the future. If you are interested to getting early access, please contact Alteryx Support.

Create Connection

Note

To be able to create a connection, you must be assigned the appropriate privileges in your roles in AAC. For more information, see Roles Page.

Steps:

Complete these steps to create any Early Preview connection.

Sign in to AAC.
On the top navigation bar, select Connections.
On the Connections page, select Create Connection.
Select the appropriate card for the connection type. The cards for the connections below are marked: Early Preview.
Specify the connection according to the instructions provided below.
Verify the connection by creating an imported dataset.

For more information, go to Connections Page .

Create Connection via API

Depending on your product edition, you may be able to create your connection via API.

To create an API connection, you must acquire the vendor, vendorName, and type information from the appropriate section below.

"vendor": "<Vendor>",
"vendorName": "<VendorName>",
"type": "<typeIdentifier>"

Use Connection

This section contains basic information on using connections to various types of supported storage.

Connect to data: For more information, go to Connect to Data.
- Import a File: For more information, go to Import a File.
- Import a Table: For more information, go to Import a Table.

Early Preview Connections

Item	Description
Airtable Connections	Airtable is an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. For more information, see https://airtable.com/.
Amazon Athena Connections	Amazon Athena is a service that enables a data analyst to perform interactive queries in the AWS public cloud on data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)For more information, seehttps://aws.amazon.com/athena/.
Amazon DynamoDB Connections	Amazon DynamoDB is an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing non-relational document based databases. For more information, see https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.
Apache Impala Connections	Apache Impala is a MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) SQL query system for processing volumes of data stored in a Hadoop cluster. For more information, see https://impala.apache.org/.
Authorize.net Connections	Authorize.Net is a payment gateway service provider that allows merchants to accept credit cards, contactless payments, and eChecks through their website and over an IP connection. For more information, see https://www.authorize.net/.
Cassandra Connections	Cassandra DB is a distributed system for deployment of a large number of nodes across multiple data centers. For more information, see https://cassandra.apache.org/.
CockroachDB Connections	Cockroach DB is a cloud-native SQL database for building global and scalable cloud services that survive disasters. For more information, see https://www.cockroachlabs.com/.
DB2 Connections	IBM DB2 connects the different applications in your enterprise to your mainframe. For more information, see https://www.ibm.com/products/db2-connect.
Exact Online Connections	Exact Online is an online business software for business owners and accountants. The combination of accounting and CRM offers the perfect basis for any healthy business. For more information, see https://www.exact.com/us/software/exact-online.
Freshdesk Connections	Freshdesk by Freshworks is a cloud-based customer engagement service for managing customer interactions and the sales pipeline. For more information, see https://www.freshworks.com/.
Greenplum Connections	Greenplum uses a high-performance architecture to distribute the load of multi-terabyte data warehouses and can leverage a system's resources in parallel to process a query. For more information, see https://greenplum.org/.
Google Drive Connections	Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service that enables users to store and access files online. For more information, see https://drive.google.com/.
HubSpot Connections	HubSpot is an inbound marketing and sales platform that offers marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software. For more information, see https://www.hubspot.com/.
JIRA by Atlassian Connections	Jira by Atlassian is a software application used for issue tracking and project management. For more information, see https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira.
LinkedIn Ads Connections	LinkedIn Ads is a paid marketing tool that offers access to LinkedIn social networks through various sponsored posts and other methods. For more information, see https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions.
Magento Connections	Magento is an e-commerce platform that provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system and offers powerful marketing, search optimization, and catalog-management tools. For more information, see https://magento.com/.
Mailchimp Connections	Mailchimp is a marketing application that enables you tomaintain contact management practices and powerful data analysis.For more information, seehttps://mailchimp.com/.
MariaDb Connections	MariaDb is a popular open-source relational database. It has been integrated into various cloud offerings and is the default database for many Linux distributions. For more information, see https://mariadb.org/.
Marketo Connections	Marketo is a marketing automation platform that enables marketers to manage personalized multi-channel programs and campaigns to prospects and customers. For more information, see https://developers.marketo.com/.
Microsoft Dataverse Connections	You can create connections to your Microsoft Dataverse instance from AAC.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Connections	Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales (Deprecated)is a set of interconnected, modular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and services designed to both transform and enable your core customers, employees, and business activities. For more information, see https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/sales/overview/.
NetSuite Connections	NetSuite is the leading integrated cloud business software suite, including business accounting, ERP, CRM, and e-commerce software.
Pinterest Connections	Pinterestis a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like, fashion, home, and style inspiration. For more information, see https://in.pinterest.com/business/hub/.
Presto Connections	Presto is a high-performance, distributed SQL engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from Gigabytes to Petabytes. The architecture of Presto enables users to query various data sources such as Hadoop, MYSQL, MongoDB, and Teradata. For more information, see https://prestodb.io/.
QuickBase Connections	Quickbase is an application development platform that unites business and IT teams by enabling problem solvers to work together to safely, securely, and sustainably create an ecosystem of applications. For more information, see https://www.quickbase.com/.
QuickBooks Online Connections	QuickBooks Online is a cloud-based software that can be accessed anywhere you have an internet connection. This software includes access to all product and feature updates, automatic data backups, as well as the ability to restore company data from backups. For more information, see https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/.
Redis Connections	Redis (Remote Dictionary Server), is a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. For more information, see https://redis.io/.
SAP HANA Connections	SAP HANA® (High-performance ANalytic Appliance) is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory instead of keeping it on a disk. For more information, see https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html.
SendGrid Connections	SendGrid is a cloud-based SMTP provider that allows you to send email without having to maintain email servers. For more information, see https://sendgrid.com/.
ServiceNow Connections	ServiceNow provides technical management support, such as IT service management and help desk functionality, to the IT operations of large corporations. For more information, see https://www.servicenow.com/
Shopify Connections	Shopify is an e-commerce platform that provides online retailers with a suite of services such as payments, marketing, shipping, and customer engagement tools.
Smartsheet Connections	Smartsheet is a project management and collaboration tool served in a simple spreadsheet layout.For more information, seehttps://www.smartsheet.com/.
Splunk Connections	Splunk® is a software platform used for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data in real-time. For more information, see https://www.splunk.com/.
Trello Connections	Trello is a visual collaboration tool that enables you to organize and prioritize projects in a flexible and rewarding way. For more information, see https://trello.com/en-US.
Trino Connections	Trinois a distributed SQL query engine designed to query large data sets distributed over one or more heterogeneous data sources. For more information, seehttps://trino.io/.
Workday Connections	Workday is a cloud-based system that allows you to manage finances, human resources, and student-faculty lifecycles. For more information, see https://workday.com/.
Xero Connections	Xero is cloud-based accounting software for small businesses. It performs bookkeeping functions such as invoicing and payroll and allows you to connect to a live bank feed. For more information, seehttps://www.xero.com/.
Zendesk Connections	Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds software designed to improve customer relationships. For more information, see https://www.zendesk.com/.
Zoho CRM Connections	Zoho CRM is an online sales CRM software that manages your sales, marketing, and support in one CRM platform. For more information, see https://www.zoho.com/in/crm/.

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