Cloudera ODBC Driver for Hive is used for direct SQL and HiveQL access to Apache Hadoop / Hive distributions, enabling Business Intelligence (BI), analytics and reporting on Hadoop / Hive-based data.
The driver efficiently transforms an application’s SQL query into the equivalent form in HiveQL. Hive Query Language is a subset of SQL-92. If an application is Hive-aware, then the driver is configurable to pass the query through. The driver interrogates Hive to obtain schema information to present to a SQL based application. Queries, including joins, are translated from SQL to HiveQL.
