Configuring Client Access to Impala

Application developers have a number of options to interface with Impala.

The core development language with Impala is SQL. You can also use Java or other languages to interact with Impala through the standard JDBC and ODBC interfaces used by many business intelligence tools. For specialized kinds of analysis, you can supplement the Impala built-in functions by writing user-defined functions in C++ or Java.

You can connect and submit requests to the Impala through:

• The impala-shell interactive command interpreter
• The Hue web-based user interface
• JDBC
• ODBC
• Impyla

Impala clients can connect to any Coordinator Impala Daemon (impalad) via HiveServer2 over HTTP or over the TCP binary. You can control client connections to Impala using the Impala coordinator role available under the Configurations tab for a selected Virtual Warehouse.