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    Support for two authentication methods within the same view

    In the case of a union view that accesses two databases (each with their own method of pass-through authentication), TDV should accept both pass-through authentication methods at the same time to permit the view.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Official Support for CDH 6.x

    I think it's important to officially support one of the most important Hadoop distributions in its recent version. CDH 6 has been released more than 1 year ago, so it's time to provide official support for this data source.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 To be Reviewed

    Data ship using 'creating local temp table' instead of 'create table'

    Because of the security of the Korean finance domain, they do not give users creating table permission. Thus, we can't use the data ship feature because the data ship requires a creating authority. We must use the data ship feature to satisfy the ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Future Consideration

    Adding an adapter to consume JSON files directly.

    Currently, there is no adapter to consume JSON files directly. The only capability exists within a web service. Currently we have data sources that are publishing JSON files to a file sharing network, and we are being asked to consume. I'm reque...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 To be Reviewed

    Create a connector for ServiceNow

    As many others we are using ServiceNow and want to add reporting to the standard reports available, either through Spotfire or other reporting tooling with access control and additional logic centralized in TDV. For this no connector is said to ba...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 4 To be Reviewed

    Add functionality to read XML body from files in File - XML datasource

    We have multiple collections of XML files that are all of the same XML schema. These files are accesed through the File - XML datasource. Currently, processing XML files from this source requires that a transformation is defined on each file. That...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    Support for Kafka adapter in TDV

    We would like you to add support for a Kafka adapter in TDV to make it possible to access live Kafka data, in avro format, as a datasource. We currently have mulitple Kafka streams storing data in avro format and such an adapter would enable us ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Future Consideration

    Add support for Presto as a data source to TDV

    TDV needs an adapter for Prestodb.io. This idea is for simple data source access, not caching or data ship. If this is of interest to you, please indicate in the comments the use case and level of support you need, i.e., not only data source but c...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Unlikely to implement

    Add support for Azure SQL Database as a data source

    Provide support for Azure SQL DB as a data source. Caching and data ship are out of scope initially. Please indicate in the comments if that is desired.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Future Consideration

    Support Azure BLOB storage as a data source

    Add a flat file data source adapter that can access files on Azure BLOB Storage
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration
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