Supported data sources
BIRT Designer Professional supports all the types of data sources that open-source BIRT Designer supports, and more. Table 1‑1 lists the types of data sources that each product supports. Accessing data in supported data sources explains how to access data in supported data sources.
Table 1‑1 Supported data source types
Data source type
BIRT Designer Professional
BIRT Designer
Actuate data object
✓
 
Actuate information object
✓
 
Actuate JDBC Salesforce.com
✓
 
ActuateOne for e.Reports
✓
 
Amazon DynamoDB
✓
 
Amazon RDS
✓
 
BIRT report document
✓
 
Cassandra scripted
✓
✓
Cloudera Hive
✓
 
Excel
✓
✓
Flat file
✓
✓
HBase
✓
 
Hive
✓
✓
JDBC database connection for Query Builder
✓
✓
JDBC
✓
✓
MongoDB
✓
✓
Plain Old Java Object (POJO)
✓
✓
Scripted
✓
✓
Static
✓
 
Web service
✓
✓
XML document
✓
✓