The Hive driver that Microsoft will be releasing is ODBC, so you should be able to interact with Hive just like you would with any other relational database.
From: John Omernik [mailto:j...@omernik.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:22 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Hive ODBC - Microsofts Involvement Does anyone know if the driver Microsoft is talking about with their Azure based hadoop/hive setup would work for connecting Windows applications (Excel/.NET Web Apps etc) to Apache Hive running on Unix? Looking for a way to connect .NET Web apps to Hive for some process flow upgrades. Thanks!
