Spotfire connectors allow you to connect easily to and analyze data from relational databases, cubes, OData sources, Hadoop systems, and other big data repositories. Using connectors, you can connect to a data source, view its structure, and select which data you'd like to analyze in Spotfire.
There's a great page that I recommend you read about the TIBCO Community:
https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-data-access.
Alternatively, use this shortened link:
http://bit.ly/2I8sE0w.
The page gives an up-to-date list of all the connectors that are available. There's also a really nice FAQ section linked from the page. I recommend you take a look at this page—of particular note is that some connectors support much more than their advertised data source—for example, the Microsoft SQL Server connector works with Azure SQL databases...