Announcing: New Cloudera ODBC drivers for Impala and Apache Hive

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Hello CDH and Impala Users,

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.5.12 of the ODBC Driver for Apache Hive and version 2.5.20 of the ODBC driver for Impala.  These versions contain bug fixes including one that affected the decimal data type. These drivers work for previous versions of HiveServer2 in CDH 4.1 or higher and Impala 1.0 or higher.

Getting started with the Cloudera ODBC Drivers:

• Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 Driver for Impala release notes and installation guide

• Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5 Driver for Apache Hive release notes and  installation guide

• Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page

As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to cdh-user@cloudera.org or post to our new Community Forums.

Kind regards,

The Cloudera Team