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272 VOTE

Open analysis file without data

When doing support, we need to open DXP file with sometime HUGE amount of data. It would be useful to be able to open a DXP file in Spotfire Analyst, with a special option "Without Data". So we could just have a look to * how many data source the...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
264 VOTE

Add columns by matching on calculated columns

When adding columns from External data, it is currently not possible to match on columns that have been calculated in DXP.This could be useful for several purposes:* if casting of datatype is needed to perform the matching* if string trimming is n...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
145 VOTE

Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
133 VOTE

Support temporary tables in data connections

When retrieving on-demand data Spotfire's information designer supports creating temporary tables to avoid huge WHERE clauses (link) which can not only be a performance issue but infact hinder a query from being executed completelly. Temporary tab...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
116 VOTE

Better support of web services

When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
103 VOTE

Support for Clickhouse of column-oriented database

we are currently storing analysis data in the ClickhouseDB, want to create an environment for analysis using BI tool. As we know, Clickhouse has a JDBC Driver ( https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-jdbc ), but Spotfire doesn't support Clickhou...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Incremental updates of data in-memory

I want to only pull the incremental updates into memory via the schedule updates. As they have a few analysis set for Schedule Updates that are very large, but the amount of data that is new is relatively small, so pulling the entire data set ever...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Spotfire keychain credentials and password manager

Spotfire should provide a native keychain credentials and password manager so that I don't need to remember passwords to all connector data sources.
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Looking to connect AWS S3 bucket and get data from there into spotfire as a table

I had files stored in AWS S3 bucket where i have access to and looking to pull files in tabular(csv,xlsx,tsv,..) format into spotfire
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Support JSON data

Allow opening of data in JSON format
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
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