Data Drivers & Plugins Overview

This article provides an overview of all the data drivers and plugins you can use to import data into an InMemory Database or Data Discovery in alphabetical order with a short description of their purpose. For InMemory, all of these drivers are included in the installation of TARGIT Data Driver Package and updated when upgrading the package. For Data Discovery, the plugins and drivers are updated when Data Discovery is updated. An exception from this are the online data providers, which can be updated any time by TARGIT. This ensures a much faster resolution time of any bugs or 3rd party API changes. 

 

Data Source Availability Purpose Online Data Provider Comment
Alteryx YXDB InMemory/Data Discovery Reads data in Alteryx Database format.   Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)
AX7 InMemory Retracts data from D3FO using our integration    
CSV InMemory/Data Discovery Reads CSV file - either a local file or reachable by URL    
Date/Time Data Discovery Creates date/time table for use in data models with a dynamic or static range of dates    
DB2 iSeries InMemory/Data Discovery Reads table from DB2 database   Deprecated from 2023 - August release.
DB2 InMemory/Data Discovery Reads table from DB2 database Yes  
Directory Data Discovery Input folder where CSV, JSON and Excel files can be dropped. 

Automatically creates data sources based on these files.
  Not available in TARGIT Cloud.
Email InMemory Is used to send notifications. Specify SMTP details and send messages during the script run    
Environment Variable InMemory Reads from environment variables.    
European Central Bank Data Discovery Retrieves exchange rates between selected currencies in a selected timeframe    
Excel InMemory/Data Discovery Reads Excel files from either:
Local drive
URL
Google Drive
Onedrive
   
FileList InMemory Reads a file structure in a folder, gets file names as results. Used to iterate across multiple files in script    
FixedWidth InMemory Reads from fixedwidth-structured files    
Gateway database InMemory Reads data from a database using Gateway client. Need to configure specific connection on gateway client    
Google Analytics InMemory/Data Discovery Retrieves data from Google Analytics   Google deprecates their API for this driver June/July 2023. Please move to new online driver - see more information here.
Google Analytics InMemory/Data Discovery Retrieves data from Google Analytics Yes  
Google BigQuery InMemory/Data Discovery Retrieves data from Google BigQuery   Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)
Google Trends InMemory/Data Discovery Retrieves data from Google Trends on used search terms   Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)
HubSpot InMemory/Data Discovery Retrieves data from the HubSpot API Yes  
JavaScript InMemory/Data Discovery Allows custom javascript to communicate with rest-APIs   Not available in TARGIT Cloud.

Jira

Generic GET Request
Generic POST request
Get project
Get user
Search
Cloud (Get user)

 

InMemory/Data Discovery

Multiple options to retrieve data from the project management app Jira Yes  

Jobindsats

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from data service jobindsats.dk Yes  

JSON

InMemory/Data Discovery

Reads JSON files either local or by URL    
Microsoft Office Access

 

Data Discovery

Reads Access database table    
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

 

InMemory/Data Discovery Retracts data from D365 BC using our integration Yes  
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales InMemory/Data Discovery Retracts data from customer relationship management software package developed by Microsoft. Yes  
Microsoft Dynamics CRM InMemory Retracts data from Dynamics CRM using 3rd party dlls   Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

MongoDB

InMemory/Data Discovery

Reads MongoDB data source   Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

MySQL

Data Discovery

Reads MySQL database table   Please use new assembly for .NET 7 from 2022 Winter Update 1 and change the reference in the data source settings.

OData

InMemory/Data Discovery

Reads data from OData    

Quandl

InMemory

Retrieves data from Quandl Service

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

Penton

InMemory

Reads data from a Penton database

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

PostGreSQL

Data Discovery

Reads PostgreSQL database table

   

Python

Data Discovery

Executes Python Script on schedule and retrieves resultset

  Not available in TARGIT Cloud.

Python DotNet

Data Discovery

Executes Python Script on schedule and retrieves resultset

  Not available in TARGIT Cloud.

Quandl

Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Quandl Service

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

R Language

Data Discovery

Executes R Script on schedule and retrieves resultset

  Not available in TARGIT Cloud.

Salesforce

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from CRM system Salesforce

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

Salesforce

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from CRM system Salesforce.

Yes  

SAP

InMemory

Retracts data from SAP server

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

SFTP

InMemory

Reads file structure from SFTP server

   

SharePoint

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from SharePoint's lists and libraries

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

SharePoint

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from SharePoint Online's lists and libraries

Yes  

SQL Server

Data Discovery

Reads data from SQL Server Database table (or view)

   

SQL Stored Procedure

Data Discovery

Executes SQL Stored Procedure on schedule allowing dynamic dataset as resultset

   

Statistics Denmark

Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Danish Statistical Authority

  Out of support. Will be removed when API changes.

Statistics Denmark

InMemory/Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Danish Statistical Authority

Yes  

TARGIT Analysis

Data Discovery

Reads data from data object in TARGIT Analysis

   

Trello

InMemory

Retracts data from Trello task management system

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

Twitter

Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Twitter service

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

Weather

Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Weather service based on zip codes

   

Windows Event Log

Data Discovery

Retrieves data from Windows Event Log

  Not available in TARGIT Cloud.

XML

InMemory/Data Discovery

Reads XML files

   

Xport

Data Discovery

A special data source used to export data sources from one Data Service instance and porting and importing those data sources to another instance of Data Service

  Deprecated from 2022 Winter (released December 1st 2022)

 

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