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Tableau Desktop

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Operating systems

Windows

Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11

Minimum system requirements

  • Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets

Recommended requirements

  •  Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 (quad core)
  • 16 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB SSD free or larger
Mac

macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Sonoma (for Tableau 2022.3+); Apple Silicon machines require the use of macOS Ventura (13+) or newer

Minimum system requirements

  • Intel processors - Core i3 (dual core) or newer
  • Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta - 24.1 and below)
  • Apple Silicon processors (version 24.2 or newer on MacOS Ventura or newer)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger

Recommended requirements

  •  Intel Core i7 (quad core)
  • 16 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB SSD free or larger

Virtual environments

  • Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels and VMware.
  • All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any processor compatibility mode must be disabled.

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Desktop is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Desktop data sources

Connect to hundreds of data sources with Tableau Desktop.

 
  • Tableau Server data sources
  • Actian Vector
  • Alibaba AnalyticDB for MySQL
  • Alibaba Data Lake Analytics
  • Alibaba MaxCompute
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EMR Hadoop Hive**
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Anaplan
  • Apache Drill**
  • Box
  • TIBCO® Data Virtualization
  • ClickHouse
  • Cloudera Hadoop Hive and Impala; Hive CDH3u1, which includes Hive .71, or later; Impala 1.0 or later (incl. Kerberos support for Impala)
  • Databricks
  • Denodo
  • Dropbox
  • Esri ArcGIS Server
  • EXASOL 4.2 or later
  • Firebird
  • Google Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Drive
  • Hortonworks Hadoop Hive**
  • HP Vertica
  • IBM BigInsights*
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM PDA Netezza
  • Impala
  • JSON files
  • Kognitio
  • Kyvos**
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • MariaDB
  • Marketo
  • MarkLogic
  • SingleStore (MemSQL)
  • Microsoft Access 2007 or later*
  • Microsoft Azure Synapse
  • Microsoft Azure SQL DB
  • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Gen 2
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft SharePoint lists
  • Microsoft Spark on HDInsight
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
  • MonetDB
  • MongoDB BI
  • MySQL
  • OData
  • Oracle database
  • Oracle Eloqua
  • Oracle Essbase
  • Oracle Netsuite
  • PDF
  • Pivotal Greenplum**
  • PostgreSQL
  • Presto
  • Progress OpenEdge
  • Qubole
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce.com, including Force.com and Database.com
  • Salesforce Data Cloud
  • Salesforce Datorama
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse*
  • SAP SuccessFactors
  • SAP Sybase ASE*
  • SAP Sybase IQ*
  • ServiceNow
  • Snowflake
  • SparkSQL**
  • Spatial files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
  • Splunk
  • Starburst
  • Statistical Files; SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
  • Tableau data extract
  • Teradata
  • Teradata OLAP Connector
  • Text files – comma separated value (.csv) files
  • Additional databases and applications that are ODBC 3.0 compliant
  • Additional databases and applications that are JDBC 4.0 compliant
  • Tons of web data with the web data connector
  • Seamlessly connect Tableau to additional data sources with Connectors on the Tableau Exchange

*Available for Windows only

** Not available in Tableau for Apple Silicon

  • Google Sheets
  • JSON
  • Microsoft Access 2007 or later (Windows only)
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
  • OData
  • PDF
  • Spatial files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
  • Statistical Files; SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
  • Tableau data extract
  • Text files – comma separated value (.csv) files
  • Tons of web data with the web data connector

Tableau Prep requirements

Tableau Prep

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OS requirements

Windows

Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11

Minimum system requirements

  • Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets

Recommended requirements

  •  Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 (quad core)
  • 16 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB SSD free or larger

High-performance requirements

  • Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 (8 Core)
  • 32 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB SSD free or larger
Mac

macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Sonoma (for Tableau 2022.3+); Apple Silicon machines require the use of macOS Ventura (13+) or newer

Minimum system requirements

  • Intel processors - Core i3 (dual core) or newer
  • Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta - 2024.1 and below)
  • Apple Silicon processors (version 2024.2 or newer on MacOS Ventura or newer)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger

Recommended requirements

  •  Intel Core i7 (quad core)
  • 16 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB SSD free or larger

Virtual environments

  • Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels and VMware.
  • All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any Processor Compatibility mode must be disabled. 

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Prep is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Prep Conductor

  • For Prep Conductor technical specifications, see Tableau Server.

Tableau Prep data sources

Connect to the data you care about with Tableau Prep.

  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EMR Hadoop Hive**
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Alibaba AnalyticsDB
  • Alibaba Data Lake Analytics
  • Alibaba MaxCompute
  • Apache Drill**
  • Box
  • ClickHouse
  • Cloudera Hadoop
  • Cloudera Impala
  • Databricks
  • Denodo
  • Dropbox
  • Exasol
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Drive
  • Hortonworks Hadoop Hive**
  • HP Vertica
  • IBM BigInsights
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM PDA (Netezza)
  • JDBC
  • Kognitio
  • Kyvos**
  • MapR Hadoop Hive
  • MariaDB
  • MarkLogic 7.0 and 8.0
  • SingleStore (MemSQL)
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Gen 2
  • Microsoft Azure Synapse
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Monet DB
  • Mongo DB
  • MySQL
  • ODBC
  • OneDrive
  • Oracle
  • Oracle Netsuite
  • PDF
  • Pivotal Greenplum Database**
  • PostgreSQL
  • Presto
  • Qubole Presto
  • Salesforce
  • Salesforce Data Cloud
  • Salesforce Datorama
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP Sybase IQ*
  • SAP Sybase ASE*
  • Snowflake
  • SparkSQL**
  • Splunk
  • Statistical files
  • Tableau extracts
  • Tableau published data sources
  • Teradata
  • Text file
  • Seamlessly connect Tableau to additional data sources with Connectors on the Tableau Exchange

*Available for Windows only

** Not available in Tableau for Apple Silicon

Tableau Server requirements

Tableau Server

Web browsers

  • Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
  • Microsoft Edge on Windows
  • Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
  • Apple Safari on Mac and iOS
  • Tableau Mobile iOS and Android Apps, available from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store respectively

Minimum requirements for installation

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 (x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022 (Tableau Server 2023.3.1+)
  • For the latest release of Tableau Server: Alma Linux 8.x and 9.x, Amazon Linux 2 and 2023, CentOS 7.9+, CentOS Stream 8.x and 9.x, Oracle Linux 7.3+, 8.x and 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+,  8.3+ and 9.x, Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS, all on x86-64 chipsets only (ARM-based processors are not supported)
  • For a table showing Linux distro support across all supported Tableau Server versions, please see our documentation
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets

The minimum specifications are only suggested for prototyping and testing Tableau Server. The installer checks for the minimum system requirements and will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums:

  • 4 cores / 8v-CPU (ex.AWS)
  • 64 GB system memory (initial node)
  • 16 GB system memory (additional node in multi-node deployment)
  • 15 GB minimum free disk space
 

Minimum recommendations for production

The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:

  • 8 physical cores / 16V-CPU (e.g. AWS)
  • 128 GB system memory
  • 50 GB minimum free disk space
Tableau Prep Conductor

We recommend deploying Tableau Prep Conductor on a dedicated node with a minimum of 4 cores and 16 GB of memory. Additional resources may be needed depending on the use case. Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.

Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool

The Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool has two components: an agent that is installed on each node of the Tableau Server cluster it is monitoring, and the RMT Server for processing and hosting the web service. A separate machine/VM is needed for the RMT Server, where all processing and analysis takes place. The minimum specifications for the RMT Server are:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022
  • Alma Linux 8.x and 9.x, Amazon Linux 2 and 2023, CentOS 7.9+, CentOS Stream 8.x and 9.x, Oracle Linux 7.3+, 8.x and 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+,  8.3+ and 9.x, Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS, all on x86-64 chipsets only (ARM-based processors are not supported), Linux distro
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
  • 8 physical CPU cores (16 vCPUs)
  • 64GB RAM
  • 500GB disk space, SSD drive or similar for performance

For RMT Server installations that match the minimum hardware specified above, the Resource Monitoring Tool can provide performance reporting for Tableau Server deployments serving up to 10,000 views per hour.
For deployments with more view loads per hour, or very high numbers of background jobs, data delays may occur. In these cases, you may need to upgrade your hardware.

Tableau Content Migration Tool

The Content Migration Tool is run from a Windows computer and is able to connect to Tableau Servers with Advanced Management enabled. To review compatible versions of Tableau Server and Content Migration Tool, please check here. The minimum specifications are:

  • Microsoft Windows 8 or newer (x64)
  • Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
  • 4 GB or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger You may need additional disk space if you are migrating large amounts of content. All content is stored locally on disk during a migration.
Enterprise deployments

Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.

Read our Tableau Server Scalability white paper for architecture recommendations and to see benchmark results.

View additional white papers for more information about scalability, high availability and optimising Tableau for the enterprise.

User authentication and security

Supports Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect and built-in Tableau users and groups for user authentication and group membership definitions. Kerberos support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and Cloudera Impala. LDAP for Tableau Server on Linux.

Virtual environments

Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware (including vMotion), Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

All Tableau products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any processor compatibility mode must be disabled. We recommend VM deployments with dedicated CPU affinity.

Internationalisation

The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Server data sources

Connect to hundreds of data sources with Tableau Server.

  • Actian Vectorwise
  • Alibaba AnalyticDB for MySQL
  • Alibaba Data Lake Analytics
  • Alibaba MaxCompute
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Elastic MapReduce
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Anaplan
  • Apache Drill
  • Box
  • Cloudera Hadoop Hive and Impala; Hive CDH3u1, which includes Hive .71, or later; Impala 1.0 or later
  • Databricks
  • Datorama
  • Denodo
  • Dropbox
  • ESRI ArcGIS
  • EXASOL 4.2 or later for Windows
  • Firebird
  • Google Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Drive
  • Hortonworks Hadoop Hive
  • HP Vertica
  • IBM BigInsights*
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM PDA Netezza
  • Impala
  • JSON files
  • Kognitio*
  • Kyvos
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • MariaDB
  • Marketo
  • MarkLogic
  • SingleStore (MemSQL)
  • Microsoft Access 2007 or later*
  • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Gen 2
  • Microsoft Azure SQL DB
  • Microsoft Azure Synapse
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft SharePoint lists
  • Microsoft Spark on HDInsight
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
  • MonetDB*
  • MongoDB BI
  • MySQL
  • OData
  • Oracle database
  • Oracle Eloqua
  • Oracle Essbase
  • PDF
  • Pivotal Greenplum
  • PostgreSQL
  • Presto
  • Progress OpenEdge
  • Qubole
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce.com, including Force.com and Database.com
  • SAP HANA
  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse*
  • SAP Sybase ASE*
  • SAP Sybase IQ*
  • ServiceNow
  • Snowflake
  • Spark SQL
  • Spatial files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • Statistical Files; SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
  • Tableau extracts
  • Teradata
  • Teradata OLAP Connector
  • TIBCO® Data Virtualization*
  • Text files, including comma separated value (.csv) files
  • Additional databases and applications that are ODBC 3.0 compliant
  • Additional databases and applications that are JDBC 4.0 compliant
  • Tons of web data with the web data connector
  • Seamlessly connect Tableau to additional data sources with Connectors on the Tableau Exchange

* Available for Tableau Server on Windows only

Tableau Cloud

Web browsers

  • Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
  • Microsoft Edge on Windows
  • Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
  • Apple Safari on Mac and iOS

Data sources

  • Extracts of all data sources compatible with Tableau Desktop. Note, extracts of multidimensional (cube) data sources are not available.
  • Live connections to many data sources, both hosted in the cloud and on-premises via the Tableau Bridge client. See the complete list here.
  • For more information on the differences between live connections and extracts in Tableau Cloud, view the white paper.

Storage

  • 1 terabyte

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Cloud is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Mobile

Operating systems

We recommend running the latest iOS and Android OS versions. These are the minimum OS requirements we support.

  • iOS 15 or later
  • Android 8 or later

Tableau environment

  • An account on either Tableau Server 10.5 or later or on Tableau Cloud.

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Mobile is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Reader

Data sources

  • Tableau Desktop packaged workbook

File interaction

  • View, filter, sort, export, print and paging

Operating systems

Windows
  • Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
  • 2 GB memory
  • 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac
  •  macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Sonoma (for Tableau 2022.3+); Apple Silicon machines require the use of macOS Ventura (13+) or newer
  • Intel processors - Core i3 (dual core) or newer
  • Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta - 2024.1 and below)
  • Apple Silicon processors (version 24.2 or newer on MacOS Ventura or newer)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Reader is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Public

Operating systems

Windows
  • Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
  • 2 GB memory
  • 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
  • CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac

  •  macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+), macOS Sonoma (for Tableau 2022.3+); Apple Silicon machines require the use of macOS Ventura (13+) or newer

  • Intel processors - Core i3 (dual core) or newer
  • Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta - 2024.1 and below)
  • Apple Silicon processors (version 24.2 or newer on MacOS Ventura or newer)
  • 4 GB memory or larger
  • 2 GB HDD free or larger

Virtual environments

  • Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware, Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2.
  • All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any Processor Compatibility mode must be disabled. 

Data sources

Connect to these data sources with Tableau Desktop Public Edition.

  • Google Sheets
  • JSON files
  • Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
  • OData
  • PDF
  • Spatial files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
  • Statistical Files; SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
  • Text files – comma separated value (.csv) files
  • Tons of web data with the web data connector

Web browsers

  • Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
  • Microsoft Edge on Windows
  • Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
  • Apple Safari on Mac and iOS

Internationalisation

  • Tableau Public is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
  • The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.

Tableau Bridge

Tableau Bridge technical specifications can be found here.