Data Source Connectors

Connecting to your data is the first step in analyzing your business information. Sisense has native connectors to many SQL databases, NoSQL sources, and popular web applications.

For a short video overview of connecting to data sources, see below.

Live Data Source Connectors

The following is a list of native supported Live data source connectors, all of which are pre-installed in Sisense. Click a connector to view documentation about it.

ElastiCube Data Source Connectors

Sisense provides native, out-of-the-box supported ElastiCube data source connectors, pre-installed with the platform. Additional certified connectors are available for download from our trusted partners here. Click a connector to view its documentation.

Native Sisense ElastiCube Connectors:

Connector	Provide by a Certified Partner*
Athena	No
Redshift	No
Azure Synapse	No
ClickHouse	No
CSV	No
Databricks	No
Generic JDBC Driver	No
Google BigQuery	No
Google Sheets	No
Excel	No
SQL Server	No
MongoDB	No
MySQL	No
Oracle	No
PostgreSQL	No
Salesforce	No
SingleStore
Sisense ElastiCube	No
Snowflake	No

Partner-Supported ElastiCube Connectors:

Connector	Provide by a Certified Partner*
Access	Yes
Airtable	Yes
Asana	Yes
Azure Data Management	Yes
Azure Table Storage	Yes
Bing Ads	Yes
Bing Search	Yes
Box	Yes
Cassandra	Yes
CosmosDB	Yes
CouchBase	Yes
Custom REST	No
Custom Connectors with JDBC Drivers	Yes
Dropbox	Yes
DynamoDB	Yes
Elasticsearch	Yes
ElastiCube	Yes
Email	Yes
Exact Online	Yes
Excel Services	No
Exchange	Yes
Facebook	Yes
FTP	Yes
Gmail	Yes
Google Cloud Spanner	Yes
Google Drive	Yes
GreenPlum	Yes
HBase	Yes
Heroku Postgres	No
Hive	Yes
HubSpot	Yes
IBM Cloud SQL Query	Yes
IBM Cloudant	Yes
Impala	Yes
Instagram	Yes
JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver	Yes
Jira	Yes
JSON	Yes
LDAP	Yes
LinkedIn	Yes
MailChimp	Yes
MariaDB	Yes
MarkLogic	Yes
SingleStore
Microsoft Active Directory	Yes
Microsoft Dynamics CRM	Yes
Microsoft Dynamics Nav	Yes
OData	Yes
Parquet	Yes
Phoenix	Yes
Presto	Yes
Quickbooks Desktop	Yes
Quickbooks Online	Yes
Redis	Yes
REST	Yes
Sage Intacct	Yes
SAP Fieldglass	Yes
SAP HANA	Yes
SAP Hybris C4C	Yes
SendGrid	Yes
ServiceNow	Yes
SFTP	Yes
SharePoint	Yes
SharePoint Excel Services	Yes
Shopify	Yes
SparkSQL	Yes
Splunk	Yes
Stripe	Yes
SQL Analysis Services	Yes
SugarCRM	Yes
SurveyMonkey	Yes
Sybase	Yes
Sybase IQ	Yes
Teradata	Yes
Twilio	Yes
Twitter	Yes
Xero	Yes
XML	Yes
YouTube	Yes
YouTube Analytics	Yes
Zendesk	Yes

Notes for the certified connectors:

All certified CData connectors are supported in all versions of Sisense for Linux.
Sisense prior to v8.0: Download a 30-day free-trail of the connector driver. Contact Sisense for the full license version.
Sisense v8.0 and above: Download a ready-to-use connector driver.
For connecting to certified connectors not included in the above list, see Connecting to Custom Connectors with JDBC Drivers.

Vendor JDBC Connectors

With Sisense's generic JDBC driver you can leverage native JDBC connectors to connect to the following additional data sources:

Azure Data Explorer
Denodo
Dremio
IBM DB2
Neo4j
PrestoDB
Vertica
Yellowbrick

For more information, see Connecting to Custom Connectors with JDBC Drivers.

You can connect to many additional data sources by deploying a custom connector through the Generic JDBC option.

Technology Partner Connectors

Technology partners enable connections to data sources via the data pipeline. They also manage API changes and limits, and deliver comprehensive support as part of their service. Import your data into a data warehouse (such as, Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) to access your data with either ElastiCube or Live data models.
Sisense technology partner connectors include:

Adobe Analytics
Apple Search Ads
AppsFlyer
DoubleClick
Facebook
Facebook Ads
Freshdesk
LinkedIn Ads
Magento
Marketo
Netsuite
Pardot

Contact your Account Executive or Customer Success Manager to discuss the full functionality that Sisense technology partners provide, and to start your free trial.

Learn more about connecting to data sources via the Stitch data pipeline.

Sisense supports these frameworks with frequent upgrades and new functionality. However, full connectors to specific data sources created through these frameworks are not supported.