Author: Michael Hetrick, Director, Product Marketing, Tableau

Worldwide, organizations are empowering people to securely access, create, and share data and analytics on their Tableau platform that is right-sized to the business demand it is supporting. They are strategically transforming how they do business by enabling smart, curious people with data, and building a culture of analytics at all skill levels. As adoption and engagement increase, Tableau becomes mission-critical to business operations. This is self-service analytics at scale.

Understanding scalability is essential to deploying Tableau Server, planning for future capacity, and meeting growing business expectations. This paper introduces Tableau Server’s scalable architecture in a multi-node cluster and explores the following:

Scalability test results for Windows and Linux showing Tableau Server scales nearly linearly by increasing hardware resources
Variables affecting scalability for new and existing deployments and what to consider when planning your deployment
Recommendations for your scalability testing

Published: Jan 10, 2018 | Updated: Feb 6, 2018