We are pleased to announce the release of Hive ODBC v2.6.1. The release has the following resolved issue.   Resolved Issues [00119275][HAR-833] CAST AS VARCHAR(n) returns incorrect metadata.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera Hive ODBC 2.6.1 Driver for Hive Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Impala ODBC v2.6.0.  The release has the following fixes: Enhancements and New Features: [IMP-478] Updated SSL Support [IMP-519] Minimum TLS Support [IMP-472] TLS Server Name Indication [IMP-508] Standardized Log File Names [IMP-462] More Informative SSL Error Messages [00116516] [IMP-484] Renamed Keytab Property [IMP-520] Linux Installation Workflow Improvement [IMP-317] Support for Result Set Cache and Query Retry Resolved Issues: [00131357] [IMP-511] In some cases queries are not properly closed on the server, negatively impacting server resources. [IMP-486] In some cases, CAST AS VARCHAR does not function correctly. [00119275] [IMP-503] Connections from a machine with large amounts of RAM are slower than expected. [00132211] [IMP-523] Driver wide properties cannot be read from the .ini file. Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.6.0 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

  We are pleased to announce the release of Impala JDBC v2.6.4.  The release has the following resolved issues:   Resolved Issues [00116966] [IMPJ-386] Documentation for the SocketTimeout configuration option is incorrect.   Breaking Changes The following are breaking changes to driver functionality. These changes may cause some workflows from earlier versions to fail.   2.6.1 - Removed support for JDBC 3 (Java 5) Beginning with this release, the driver no longer supports JDBC 3 (Java 5). Only JDBC 4 (Java 6) and JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) are supported.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera Impala JDBC 2.6.4 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.   ... View more

  We are pleased to announce the release of Impala ODBC v2.5.44.  The release has the following fixes:   Resolved Issues in Impala ODBC 2.5.44 [00117025] [IMP-494] In some cases, when querying a table with a name that contains the suffix “_impala”, the driver truncates the suffix and then fails to query the table.    This issue has been resolved.  The driver no longer automatically truncates the “_impala” suffix, ensuring that the intended table name is used in the query. [IMP-504] The driver does not behave according to the Socket Timeout (or SocketTimeout) setting, and stops responding instead of returning an error when the server takes too long to respond to a request.   This issue has been resolved. The driver now returns an error if the amount of time taken by the server to respond to a request exceeds the number of seconds specified by the Socket Timeout or (SocketTimeout) setting.    Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5.44 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.   ... View more

  We are pleased to announce the release of Impala ODBC v2.5.43.  The release has the following fixes:   Resolved Issues in Impala ODBC 2.5.43 [00116516] The driver does not use the keytab mapping files as specified in the UPN Keytab Mapping File configuration option. The driver cannot file ODBCMessages.xml files in folders with names that include Japanese characters. [00115866] The driver treats the string “NULL” as a null value. [00116560] The driver inserts explicit “CROSS JOIN” in some queries for Impala versions higher than 1.2.1 and lower than 2.1.0, resulting in some inefficient queries.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5.43 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.   ... View more

  Subject: [ANNOUNCE] New Hive JDBC Driver Released   We are pleased to announce the release of Hive JDBC v2.6.2. The release has the following resolved issue.   Resolved Issues The driver does not behave according to the SocketTimeout setting, and stops responding instead of returning an error when the server takes too long to respond to a request. This issue has been resolved. The driver now returns an error if the amount of time by the server to respond to a request exceeds the number of seconds specified by the SocketTimeout setting.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera JDBC 2.6.2 Driver for Hive Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.   ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Impala ODBC v2.5.42.  The release has the following fixes and enhancements: Enhancements and New Features in Impala ODBC 2.5.42 [00097802] Backward compatibility added for Database connection property. When configuring your connection on a non-Windows machine or through a connection string, you can now use either the Schema or Database connection property to specify the name of the database schema for the connection. Prior to this update, support for the Database connection property had been removed. Resolved Issues in Impala ODBC 2.5.42 [00097666] Driver returns incorrect error code for when the Impala session times out and the auto-reconnection feature is disabled. This issue has been resolved. Before, the driver incorrectly returned a generic error code (SQL state HY000). The driver now returns SQL state 08S01 instead. In some cases, the driver fails to authenticate the connection through Kerberos. In certain scenarios, during query execution the system message "Error creating temporary swap file name" may be displayed. Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera ODBC 2.5.42 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Impala JDBC v2.5.45.  The release has the following resolved issues:   Impala JDBC 2.5.45   Resolved Issues in Impala JDBC 2.5.45 [00115543] A string literal after a back-tick ( ` ) is treated as a comment. [00115424] When the driver attempts to connect to the server using Beeline, an error occurs on the server and an exception is logged by the driver. This issue has been resolved. Now, when connecting the server using Beeline, connection properties such as “driver” and “url” are no longer treated as configurations properties for the server, and the driver does not send SET queries to the server with these properties.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera Impala JDBC 2.5.45 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Impala JDBC v2.6.3.  The release has the following enhancements:   Impala JDBC 2.6.3   Enhancements and New Features in Impala JDBC 2.6.3 [IMPJ-380] The driver has been upgraded to use Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.11. [IMPJ-381] The driver package now includes the file third-party-license.txt. This text file contains the license for all third-party software used in the driver. The third-party license information is also available in the Installation and Configuration Guide.   Resolved Issues in Impala JDBC 2.6.3 [00115517] [IMPJ-353] When attempting to close a statement that is already closed, the driver logs an error   Breaking Changes The following are breaking changes to driver functionality. These changes may cause some workflows from earlier versions to fail.   2.6.1 - Removed support for JDBC 3 (Java 5) Beginning with this release, the driver no longer supports JDBC 3 (Java 5). Only JDBC 4 (Java 6) and JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) are supported.   Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera Impala JDBC 2.6.3 Driver for Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page.   As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Hive JDBC v2.6.1  The release has the following enhancements and fixes:   Enhancements and New Features in Hive JDBC 2.6.1 Improved installation process: Third-party libraries are now bundled with the driver as a shaded jar file. Updated hive-services: The driver has been upgraded to use hive-service-2.0.1 with JDBC 4.1 and hive-service-1.1.1 for JDBC 4. Updated third-party libraries: The driver has been upgraded to use http-client 4.5.3, http-core 4.4.6, commons-codec 1.9, commons-logging 1.2, and Zookeeper 3.4.11.   Resolved Issues [00115543] A string literal after a back-tick ( ` ) is treated as a comment. [00115424] When the driver attempts to connect to the server using Beeline, an error occurs on the server and an exception is logged by the driver. This issue has been resolved. Now, when connecting to the server using Beeline, connection properties such as "driver" and "url" are no longer treated as configuration properties for the server, and the driver does not send SET queries to the server with these properties. [00114906] The driver removes query comments and hints when the UseNativeQuery property is set to 1.   Breaking Changes The following are breaking changes to driver functionality. These changes may cause some workflows from earlier versions of the driver to fail.   2.6.1 - Removed support for JDBC 3 (Java 5).   Beginning with this release, the driver no longer supports JDBC 3 (Java 5). Only JDBC 4 (Java 6) and JDBC 4.1 (Java 7) are supported. Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver Read the Cloudera Hive JDBC 2.5.43 Driver for Hive Release Notes and Installation Guide. Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group of through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org. ... View more