You can use the Thrift server to access Hive tables that locates in legacy Hive warehouse and/or those generated by Spark SQL. Simba provides Spark SQL ODBC driver that enables applications like Tableau. But right now I'm not 100% sure about whether the driver has officially released yet.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Denny Lee <denny.g....@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m currently using the Spark 1.1 branch and have been able to get the > Thrift service up and running. The quick questions were whether I should > able to use the Thrift service to connect to SparkSQL generated tables > and/or Hive tables? > > As well, by any chance do we have any documents that point to how we can > connect something like Tableau to Spark SQL Thrift - similar to the SAP > ODBC connectivity http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-472? > > Thanks! > Denny > >
