Supported data sources (SPSS Modeler)

Supported data sources for SPSS Modeler

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

Connectors
Data files

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 and its subsections.

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

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	✓		✓
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		✓
FTP (remote file system transfer)		✓
Google BigQuery		✓	✓	SPSS Modeler does not support the Delete Then Insert option for SQL pushback.
Google Cloud Storage		✓
Greenplum		✓	✓
HTTP	✓
Connector	Read Only	Read & Write	SQL Pushback	Notes
IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL		✓
IBM Cloud Data Engine	✓
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB	✓
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL		✓	✓
IBM Watson Query	✓
Informix		✓
Looker		✓
MariaDB		✓
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage		✓
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB		✓
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage		✓
Microsoft Azure File Storage		✓
Microsoft Azure SQL Database		✓	✓
Microsoft SQL Server		✓	✓	SQL pushback isn't supported when Active Directory is enabled.
Connector	Read Only	Read & Write	SQL Pushback	Notes
MongoDB	✓
MySQL		✓
Netezza Performance Server		✓	✓
OData		✓
Oracle		✓	✓
Planning Analytics (formerly known as "IBM TM1")		✓		Only the Replace the data set option is supported.
PostgreSQL		✓	✓
Presto	✓
Salesforce.com		✓
SAP ASE		✓
SAP IQ	✓
SAP OData		✓
SingleStoreDB		✓
Snowflake		✓	✓
Tableau	✓
Teradata		✓

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		✓