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title: "Tile Datastores"
description: "A Tile Datastore enables a data provider to drag a file into a data sharing tile, triggering a process to a destination in your account. The Tile Datastore is a cloud connector, meaning that the source does not need an Agent to interact with it. Although it can be used by any Licence type — Tiles are specifically designed for Tile Licence Accounts — where the sharing can be quickly deployed for ad-hoc shares of data or files."
url: "https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/tile-datastores/"
category: "Datastore Features"
generated: "2026-09-16"
---
# Tile Datastores

> A Tile Datastore enables a data provider to drag a file into a data sharing tile, triggering a process to a destination in your account. The Tile Datastore is a cloud connector, meaning that the source does not need an Agent to interact with it. Although it can be used by any Licence type — Tiles are specifically designed for Tile Licence Accounts — where the sharing can be quickly deployed for ad-hoc shares of data or files.

![Tile Datastores (screenshot)](https://eightwire.io/_astro/tile-datastores-1.CCAOZezI_1XCKBb.webp)

There are three types of tile datastores available

**Excel** **Tile  —** can be mapped to any destination datastore.

**Delimited Text Tile —** can be mapped to any destination datastore.

**Generic** T**ile —** which can be used with any file type (such as word, PDF or image files) which are mapped to a Folder destination