Manage the TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) Connector

Describes the TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) connector.

The Self-Service Analytics Tibco connector lets you access the data available in your TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) storage using the Self-Service Analytics client. It supports TDV version 8.0-8.1 and has been tested with the following back-end databases:

Database	Comments
MS SQL 14.0
PostgreSQL 9.3
Oracle 11
MemSQL 6.7	Wildcard filters do not work when a single quote is used in the search expression.

Different data stores behave differently when comparing strings (for example, they handle white space and case sensitivity differently). For this reason, the Self-Service Analytics TDV connector supports the comparison behavior of the underlying data store and does not enforce a behavior of its own.

Before you can establish a connection from Self-Service Analytics to TDV, a connector server needs to be installed and configured. See Manage Connectors and Connector Servers for general instructions and Connect to TDV for details specific to the Couchbase connector.

After setting up the connector, create data sources that specify the necessary connection information and identify the data you want to use. See Create and Manage Data Sources for more information. After you set up your data sources, create dashboards and visuals from the data in these data sources.

Feature Support

Connector support for specific features is shown in the following table.

Key: Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Feature	Supported?
Admin-Defined Functions	Y
Box Plots	Y
Custom SQL Queries	Y
Derived Fields (Row-Level Expressions)	Y
Distinct Counts	Y
Fast Distinct Values	N/A
Group By Multiple Fields	Y
Group By Time	Y
Group By UNIX Time	Y
Histogram Floating Point Values	Y
Histograms	Y
Kerberos Authentication	N
Last Value	Y
Live Mode and Playback	Y
Multivalued Fields	N/A
Nested Fields	N/A
Partitions	N/A
Pushdown Joins for Fusion Data Sources	Y
Schemas	Y
Text Search	N/A
TLS	N
User Delegation	N
Wildcard Filters	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Insensitive Mode	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Sensitive Mode	N

Connect to TDV

The TDV connector requires a JDBC driver to be configured before you can connect to your data source. You can obtain the driver from the TDV installer distribution.

To connect to a TDV data store, you must specify the JDBC URL for the TDV database, and, if necessary, the username and password credentials for the TDV database. The structure of the connection URL is:

jdbc:compositesw:dbapi@<host>:<port>?domain=<domain>&dataSource=<datasource>

where

• <host> is the TDV server host name or IP address.
• <port> is the optional TDV server port for JDBC connections. The default is 9401.
• <domain> is the TDV domain in which the <datasource> belongs.
• <datasource> is the TDV data source to which you want to connect.

If you are upgrading, keep in mind you need to configure the JDBC driver - see Upgrade Self-Service Analytics for instructions. For more information and steps, see Add a JDBC Driver.