Supported data sources for SPSS Modeler

In SPSS Modeler, you can connect to your data no matter where it lives.

Connectors

The following table lists the data sources that you can connect to from SPSS Modeler.

For more information about SQL pushback (such as lists of nodes, CLEM expressions, and operators that support SQL pushback), see SQL optimization.

For a list of databases that support custom SQL queries to pull in data, see Data Asset node.

Note: If you enable SSL and use a custom certificate for the connection, many of the connectors that support SQL pushback can no longer use it. Only these connectors still support SQL pushback:
  • Db2
  • Db2 Big SQL
  • Db2 for z/OS
  • Db2 Warehouse
  • Microsoft SQL Server
Connector Read Only Read & Write SQL Pushback Notes
Amazon RDS for MySQL ✓   Replace the data set option isn't supported for this connection.
Amazon RDS for Oracle ✓    
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL ✓ ✓ Replace the data set option isn't supported for this connection.
Amazon Redshift ✓ ✓  
Amazon S3 ✓    
Apache Cassandra ✓    
Apache Derby ✓    
Apache HDFS (formerly known as "Hortonworks HDFS")   ✓    
Apache Hive ✓   ✓  
Apache Impala ✓ ✓ SPSS Modeler supports only the Username and password authentication method.
Box   ✓  
Cloud Object Storage ✓  
Cloud Object Storage (infrastructure) ✓  
Cloudant ✓
Cognos Analytics ✓  
Connector Read Only Read & Write SQL Pushback Notes
DataStax Enterprise   ✓    
Db2   ✓ ✓  
Db2 Big SQL   ✓ ✓  
Db2 for i   ✓ ✓  
Db2 for z/OS   ✓ ✓  
Db2 on Cloud   ✓ ✓  
Db2 Warehouse   ✓ ✓  
Dremio ✓      
Dropbox ✓  
Exasol   ✓ ✓ SQL pushback is supported with a custom image and ODBC driver installed.

For more information, see ODBC drivers.
FTP (remote file system transfer) ✓  
Generic JDBC   ✓   Use the Generic JDBC connection to connect to a data source that doesn't have a defined connection for watsonx.ai.
Google BigQuery ✓ ✓ Google BigQuery has these limitations when SQL pushback is enabled:
  • Data streaming isn't used to insert data in a Data Asset Export node
  • Special characters aren't allowed in column names

For more information, see Known issues and limitations for SPSS Modeler.
Google Cloud Storage   ✓    
Connector Read Only Read & Write SQL Pushback Notes
Greenplum   ✓ ✓  
HDFS via Execution Engine for Hadoop ✓     You can write to an existing data asset, but writing to a new asset isn't currently supported.
Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop ✓  
HTTP ✓      
IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL   ✓  
IBM Cloud Data Engine ✓      
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB ✓      
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL   ✓ ✓  
Impala via Execution Engine for Hadoop ✓      
Informix   ✓    
Looker ✓      
MariaDB ✓    
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage   ✓    
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB ✓    
Connector Read Only Read & Write SQL Pushback Notes
Microsoft Azure Databricks   ✓    
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage ✓  
Microsoft Azure File Storage   ✓    
Microsoft Azure SQL Database ✓ ✓  
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics   ✓ ✓  
Microsoft SQL Server   ✓ ✓  
MinIO   ✓    
MongoDB ✓      
MySQL   ✓    
Netezza Performance Server   ✓ ✓  
OData   ✓    
Oracle   ✓ ✓  
Planning Analytics (formerly known as "IBM TM1")   ✓   Only the Replace the data set option is supported.
Presto ✓      
Connector Read Only Read & Write SQL Pushback Notes
PostgreSQL   ✓ ✓  
Salesforce.com ✓      
SAP ASE   ✓    
SAP HANA   ✓ ✓ SQL pushback is supported with a custom image and ODBC driver installed.

For more information, see ODBC drivers.
SAP IQ ✓      
SAP OData   ✓    
SingleStoreDB   ✓    
Snowflake   ✓ ✓  
SPSS Analytic Server   ✓    
Storage volume (formerly known as Mounted volume) ✓   If your data contains a column or row delimiter such as a comma (,), your flow might fail when it tries to write to a storage volume. As a workaround, you can first use a Filler node to replace the delimiters.
Tableau ✓      
Teradata   ✓ ✓ SQL pushback is supported with a custom image and ODBC driver installed.

For more information, see ODBC drivers.
Vertica   ✓  

Data files

In addition to using data from remote data sources or integrated databases, you can use data from files. You can work with data from the following types of files in SPSS Modeler.

Connector Read Only Read & Write Notes
Avro ✓  
CSV, Delimited ✓
Attention: If your .csv file contains any malicious payloads in an input field (in formulas for example), these payloads might be executed.
JSON ✓  
ORC  
Parquet ✓  
SAS ✓  
SAV (SPSS Statistics)   ✓  
SHP  
XLS, XLSX (Excel)   ✓  
XML ✓  

ODBC drivers

Watsonx.ai connections use JDBC drivers. You can also use ODBC drivers to take advantage of SQL optimization and pushback.

The following ODBC drivers are preinstalled with SPSS Modeler:
  • SPSS Data Access Pack 8.1.1.0
  • Netezza native driver 7.2.1.10
  • Db2 native driver 11.5.4
The following ODBC drivers can be installed through a custom SPSS Modeler image:
  • SAP HANA driver (hanaclient-2.7.26-linux-x64.tar.gz)
  • Exasol driver (EXASOL_ODBC-7.1.4.tar.gz)
  • Teradata driver (TeradataToolsAndUtilitiesBase__linux_x8664.17.20.05.00-1.tar.gz)

For more information, see Building custom images to install ODBC drivers.