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    We’re thrilled to announce that the StarRocks Connector for Tableau, contributed by CelerData, is now officially verified and available for all CelerData users. This verification ensures seamless integration between Tableau and StarRocks, enabling users to achieve unparalleled performance for their analytics. You can find the connector on the Tableau Exchange here: StarRocks Connector for Tableau.

     

    What is Tableau?

    Tableau is a leading business intelligence and data visualization platform that helps organizations analyze data and make informed decisions. Known for its intuitive interface, rich visualizations, and advanced analytics capabilities, Tableau empowers users to transform complex data into clear, actionable insights.

     

    What is CelerData?

    CelerData is the company behind StarRocks, a real-time OLAP database and query engine designed for speed and scalability. CelerData Cloud BYOC brings the power of StarRocks to the cloud, enabling businesses to achieve class-leading query performance while simplifying data pipelines with minimal operational overhead.

     

    What is the StarRocks Connector for Tableau?

    The StarRocks Connector for Tableau is a Tableau-verified integration that allows Tableau users to directly connect to StarRocks. This connector unlocks the full potential of StarRocks’ high-performance query engine, delivering instant insights, seamless data exploration, and a significantly improved user experience within Tableau.

     

    Why Does Verification Matter?

    The Tableau Exchange is Tableau’s official marketplace for trusted integrations. A verified connector means that Tableau has thoroughly tested and approved its functionality, ensuring a seamless, secure, and high-performance connection.

    Tableau Verification

    The StarRocks Connector for Tableau passed 872 out of 873 (99.9%) test cases, proving its compatibility, reliability, and performance for seamless Tableau integration.

     

    How Does StarRocks Help Tableau Users?

    Analyzing large datasets in Tableau often leads to performance slowdowns and requires cumbersome data transformations. StarRocks eliminates these barriers, empowering Tableau users with:

    1. Blazing-Fast Dashboards – StarRocks' vectorized execution, cost-based optimizer, and columnar storage ensure sub-second query responses, even with 100s of billions of records, delivering a smooth and highly responsive Tableau experience.

    2. Unbounded Data Exploration – Unlike traditional solutions that require extensive denormalization and pre-aggregations, StarRocks empowers users with on-the-fly JOINs and aggregations at scale. This enables true ad-hoc analysis, allowing users to explore data freely, ask any question at any time, and generate insights without constraints.

    3. Real-Time Analytics at Scale – With native real-time ingestion from sources like Kafka and object storage, StarRocks enables Tableau users to analyze up-to-the-second data, ensuring that reports and dashboards always reflect the latest business conditions.

    4. Simplified Architecture and Enhanced Governance — StarRocks minimizes reliance on pre-computation pipelines, allowing users to perform analytics directly on raw data without heavy ETL processes. Its native support for data lakes like Apache Iceberg enables direct querying without data movement, streamlining architecture while enhancing data governance, consistency, and compliance.

     

    How to Get Started

    Getting started with the StarRocks Connector for Tableau is simple, here is an example of how to do it on Tableau Desktop:

    1. Download the StarRocks JDBC Driver:

      1. File: mysql-connector-j-8.0.33-sr.jar

      2. MD5: ee015de989cfa4e01693c6aaaaec1f42

    2. Store the driver file in the following directory (create the directory if it does not exist):

      1. macOS: ~/Library/Tableau/Drivers

      2. Windows: C:\Program Files\Tableau\Drivers

    3. Download the connector file:

      1. File: starrocks-connector-jdbc-v1.1.0_signed.taco

      2. MD5: ab883947799c1aa4dce02e785ab0ae55

    4. Store the connector file in the following directory:

      1. macOS: ~/Documents/My Tableau Repository/Connectors

      2. Windows: C:\Users\[Windows User]\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors

    5. Launch Tableau Desktop.

    6. Navigate to Connect -> To a Server -> StarRocks JDBC by CelerData.

    The StarRocks Connector for Tableau also works with Tableau Server. For a detailed guide on how to set it up, refer to our step-by-step instructions on the CelerData Cloud documentation: https://docs.celerdata.com/BYOC/docs/integrations/BI_integrations/Tableau/

     

    Accelerate Your Tableau Dashboards Today!

    The StarRocks Connector for Tableau is now available on CelerData Cloud, making it easier than ever for Tableau users to harness the power of real-time, high-performance analytics on data at any scale.

    For more details, visit the StarRocks Connector for Tableau page and go to cloud.celerdata.com to start your 30-day free trial.
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