Tableau connects to Spark Thrift Server via an ODBC driver. So, none of the RDD stuff applies, you just issue SQL queries from Tableau.
The table metadata can come from Hive Metastore if you place your hive-site.xml to configuration directory of Spark. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:11 AM, ashu <ashutosh.triv...@iiitb.org> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying out the tableau beta connector to Spark SQL. I have few basics > question: > Will this connector be able to fetch the schemaRDDs into tableau. > Will all the schemaRDDs be exposed to tableau? > Basically I am not getting what tableau will fetch at data-source? Is it > existing files in HDFS? RDDs or something else. > Question may be naive but I did not get answer anywhere else. Would really > appreciate if someone has already tried it, can help me with this. > > Thanks, > Ashutosh > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Tableau-beta-connector-tp21512.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
