Simba ODBC Driver for Apache Spark™ (Linux)

The Simba ODBC Driver for Spark provides Linux users access to the information stored in DataStax Enterprise clusters with a running Spark SQL Thrift Server.

The driver is compliant with ODBC 3.52 specification and automatically translates any SQL-92 query into Spark SQL.

Your DSE 5.1 license includes a license to use the Simba drivers.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Contact DataStax Support to download the Simba ODBC Driver for Apache Spark for Linux.

  2. Expand the downloaded file into a suitable location:

    mkdir simba-odbc
cd simba-odbc
tar xvf version.tar.gz

  3. Follow installation and configuration instructions provided by DataStax Support.

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