Tableau Athena Driver Download
Inan Whaley
This connector requires a driver to talk to the database. You might already have the required driver installed on your computer. If the driver is not installed on your computer, Tableau displays a message in the connection dialog box with a link to the Driver Download(Link opens in a new window) page where you can find driver links and installation instructions.
To get the right driver, you might need to know your Tableau product version. In Tableau Desktop, select Help > About Tableau. In Tableau Server, click the information icon and select About Tableau Server.
Developed by Pat Hanrahan, Christian Chabot, and Chris Stolte in 2003, Tableau is one of the most popular Data Visualization tools that allow you to create attractive Charts, Graphs, Dashboards, and Reports according to user-specified data. Tableau allows you to create high-level graphs and dashboards just by dragging and dropping the necessary fields, parameters, or columns of datasets. It can also be connected with external data sources and third-party applications via drivers and connectors to provide accurate insights into the various dataset.
Since you are about to establish a Tableau S3 connection via Athena JDBC driver, make sure that you installed the latest version of 64-bit Java. A minimum of at least JDK 7.0 or Java 1.7 is required to make a proper Tableau S3 connection.
For downloading Athena JDBC drivers, visit the official website of Amazon Athena. On the website, you can find various Athena JDBC drivers in the form of jar files. From those, download the respective JDBC driver that suits your JDK (Java Development Kit) version. After downloading the JDBC jar file, move the respective driver file to the home path or location of Tableau based on your operating system.
In this article, you learned about Amazon S3, Tableau, steps to establish a Tableau S3 connection, and how to analyze S3 data using Tableau Desktop. This article mainly focused on integrating S3 and Tableau using the Athena JDBC connector or Driver. However, you can also use third-party drivers or subscribe to online data pipelining platforms to seamlessly integrate the Amazon S3 with Tableau like Hevo.
A Tableau connector is a set of files that describe the UI elements needed to collect user input for creating a connection to a data source, any dialect or customizations needed, a connection string builder, driver resolver, and the ODBC- or JDBC-based driver.
Any data source with a supported JDBC driver can be integrated into an AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph, including databases (e.g., Oracle Database, MySQL, Apache Cassandra, AWS Athena, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB); BI tools (e.g., IBM Cognos, Microsoft PowerBI, RapidMiner, Tableau); CRM systems (e.g., Dynamics CRM, Netsuite, Salesforce, SugarCRM); cloud services (e.g., Active Directory, AWS Management, Facebook, Marketo, Microsoft Teams, SAP, ServiceNow) and shared data files (e.g., Box, Gmail, Google Drive, Office365).