Administration overview

TIBCO Spotfire® Statistics Services can be deployed as a stand-alone server against which you can run analyses in one of its engines, or it can be deployed as part of a Spotfire stack.

Spotfire Statistics Services is a light-weight, flexible server that provides a communication layer, a service layer, and TIBCO® Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR™) or open-source R engine pool, among other features. Spotfire Statistics Services does not include user interface features.

You can also use external engines, such as SAS®1, or MATLAB®, 2 if you have access to the corresponding software.

Note: Open-source R is available under separate open source software license terms and is not part of TERR. As such, open-source R is not within the scope of your license for TERR. Open-source R is not supported, maintained, or warranted in any way by TIBCO Software Inc. Download and use of open-source R is solely at your own discretion and subject to the free open source license terms applicable to open-source R.
  • Introduction to TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services
    Spotfire Statistics Services builds on the comprehensive library of statistical and mathematical algorithms provided by TERR engines (or other engines) by offering enterprise-ready features.
  • Server architecture
    TIBCO Spotfire® Statistics Services is a web service application that exposes a set of resources that allow a user to interact with an R engine. This section provides an overview of the components that make up the server architecture.
  • Client APIs
    TERR, open-source R, and client application developers can write applications to integrate with the server using one of the Spotfire Statistics Services client APIs.
  • Installation types
    Installation types for Spotfire Statistics Services include standalone and cluster.
1 SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration.
2 MATLAB is a trademark or registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.