The Cloud Data Brief

Solutions were once limited to databases deployed exclusively on-premise.

But today, businesses must navigate a wide variety of technologies and deployment types.

From individual database and Hadoop products to cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments, the landscape is diverse, and changing fast.

The Cloud Data Brief is an ongoing project aimed at quantifying the evolution of this landscape.

It explores connections to data sources used globally by customers of Tableau Online.

Understanding usage trends in these connections gives us a glimpse into how and where businesses are analyzing their data today.

Methodology
The Cloud Data Brief analyzes a sample of over one million anonymized data source connections published to Tableau Online by more than 4,000 customers.

As a cloud-hosted tool, usage patterns may represent a bias toward cloud overall.

That said, Tableau Online customers span nearly every industry and vary from small businesses to enterprise corporations.

The data in this report includes them all, and we believe it serves as an accurate indicator of broad trends in the market.