Help Center/ Data Lake Insight/ Best Practices/ Connecting BI Tools to DLI for Data Analysis/ Overview
Updated on 2025-03-18 GMT+08:00
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Overview

BI tools are powerful aids for data analysis, offering features such as data visualization, report generation, and dashboard creation.

By analyzing and processing data, DLI provides BI tools with standard, effective, and high-quality data for statistical analysis.

By connecting to DLI, BI tools can more flexibly access and analyze data, helping businesses make data-driven decisions quickly.

There are the following methods available to connect BI tools to DLI:
  • DBeaver, DBT, and Yonghong BI can directly connect to DLI through the driver provided by DLI. This simplifies the configuration process, enabling users to directly use these powerful tools.
  • Power BI, FineBI, Superset, Tableau, and Beeline can connect to DLI through Kyuubi. Kyuubi is a distributed SQL query engine that provides standard SQL APIs, making BI tools can interact with DLI through Kyuubi to query and analyze data.

The BI tools connect to DLI using DLI's SDK V2.

  • Starting May 2024, new users can directly use DLI's SDK V2 without needing to whitelist it.
  • For users who started using DLI before May 2024, to use this function, they must submit a service ticket to whitelist it.