Connect Alteryx to your data source with our ODBC connectors

Alteryx is a powerful data analytics and automation platform designed to help organizations analyze, manipulate, and prepare data for informed decision-making. Known for its intuitive, drag-and-drop interface, Alteryx enables users to easily connect to a wide variety of data sources, including databases, cloud services, and big data platforms. Devart offers ODBC connectors that enable seamless data access within Alteryx from a wide range of sources, including databases and cloud applications such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, xBase, Oracle, SQLite, Salesforce, Mailchimp, and many others.

Key Features

Direct mode

Establish a native connection to traditional databases and cloud-based services in Alteryx using an ODBC driver, without the need for client software. You can easily connect and fetch analytics data from databases such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud services like Salesforce, QuickBooks, and Zoho CRM.

SQL data type mapping

Enjoy full support for mapping data source-specific SQL data types to standard ODBC data types. Access a wide variety of data stores in Alteryx through a unified interface with exceptional speed. You can also create custom mappings between data source fields and ODBC data types.

Secure connection

Devart ODBC drivers use SSL/SSH and HTTPS tunneling to protect user data as it travels between a remote server and Alteryx over the internet. Tunneling ensures secure communication between machines.

ANSI SQL-92 standard support for cloud services

Devart ODBC drivers solve a common challenge when retrieving data from email marketing, CRM, accounting, and other cloud applications into Alteryx: the lack of adequate API support for SQL-92 standard SQL commands. Our drivers are optimized to maximize the functionality of cloud service APIs.

How to connect Alteryx to ODBC data source and access data in 3 steps

01. Install the driver and create a Data Source Name (DSN) for your connection. In Alteryx, go to Data Sources and select ODBC under the required data source.

02. Configure ODBC connection in the Input Data Tool. Select Data Source -> Generic Connection (ODBC). Then, select the required DSN.

03. In the Choose Table or Specify Query dialog, select the method for accessing the data that suits you best. Then simply click OK to proceed.

Why pick Devart ODBC Drivers for importing data to Alteryx?

Fully Unicode-compliant ODBC drivers

Unicode is the universal standard for encoding characters in most languages. Our ODBC drivers provide a Unicode-compliant way to work with strings and characters in databases: they are capable of mapping Unicode function calls and string data types to ANSI encoding.

All major versions of data stores are supported

Our ODBC drivers can be used to interact and perform SQL CRUD operations on popular traditional databases and cloud services from TIBCO Spotfire, such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, or Mailchimp.

Regular feature update rollouts and timely bug fixes

Regular feature updates and timely bug fixes

We frequently release new versions of ODBC drivers with new capabilities or enhancements for already existing features. Changes and new features are added to the roadmap based on customer feedback. Bug fixes and minor improvements are released as nightly builds to resolve issues in a timely fashion.

Strict compliance with Microsoft ODBC 3.51 Specification

Our ODBC drivers provide full support for the standard Open Database Connectivity API functions and data types. ODBC interface allows TIBCO Spotfire to connect to ODBC databases using the SQL language. Additionally, we have designed Advanced Connection String parameters that implement different types of behavior.

Exceptional SQL query performance and bulk updates

Our ODBC drivers allow you to perform bulk record update in TIBCO Spotfire in a single update statement while maintaining decent update speed. When you need to update a table with a million of records, you can use a single update operation which significantly reduces execution time compared to row-by-row operations.

Team of expert support engineers and community of developers

Contact our friendly, knowledgeable support team for assistance if you have any questions about using our ODBC drivers with Tableau or join our forum to discuss anything related to the database application development with other professional developers.