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The JDBC/ODBC connector

JDBC/ODBC is one of the most common ways for Hive to work with other tools. Hadoop vendors, such as Cloudera and Hortonworks, offer free Hive JDBC/ODBC drivers so that Hive can be connected through these drivers, which can be found at https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/connectors/hive/jdbc.html and https://hortonworks.com/downloads/#addons.

We can use these JDBC/ODBC connectors to connect Hive from tools such as the following:

A command-line utility, such as Beeline, mentioned in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Hive Environment
An integrated development environment, such as Oracle SQL Developer, also mentioned in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Hive Environment
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