> If yes, maybe one should think about an open source one, which is >reliable and supports a richer set of Odbc functionality.
I had a similar thought last week, which ended up with me discovering that the hive/odbc folder is full of dead code. I'm going to rm -rvf odbc/ with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13234 > I can see already some improvements that could be made especially for >visual analytic tools, such as Tableau or Spotfire. The ODBC capabilities bitsets need to be upgraded for something like Tableau's "Add to Context" to create a temporary table instead of running the full query everytime, for instance. Cheers, Gopal
