The Tableau Hyper engine
Tableau extracts are stored in a proprietary database engine called Hyper. The Hyper engine is included with Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Server, and Tableau Cloud and therefore does not have any additional licensing requirements. In a technical sense, the term extract refers to data that is moved from its original source for the purposes of analysis. The term Hyper refers to the Tableau technology that houses and manages the extracted data. However, the terms are often used interchangeably or even together as Hyper extract. In fact, the extracted data will sit on a disk with a .
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It is important to mention Hyper in this chapter as it is an important piece of the data modeling stack in Tableau. For the purposes of this book, we never interact with Hyper directly, but it is often at work behind the scenes when our data models are from extracted data. We have now explored published and embedded data sources and live and extract...