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Connect to Hive Data from Filemaker Pro (Mac)


Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to and query live Hive data from Filemaker Pro on Mac.

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application that allows users to visually modify a database. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, FileMaker Pro gets access to live Hive data. This article demonstrates how to connect to Hive using Connect Cloud and query Hive data in FileMaker Pro.

CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for Hive, allowing you to query data from Hive without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Hive, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Hive data quickly.

Configure Hive Connectivity for FileMaker Pro

Connectivity to Hive from FileMaker Pro is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Hive data from FileMaker Pro, we start by creating and configuring a Hive connection.

  1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
  2. Select "Hive" from the Add Connection panel
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Hive. Set the Server, Port, TransportMode, and AuthScheme connection properties to connect to Hive.
  4. Click Create & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Hive Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

  1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
  2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
  3. Give your PAT a name and click Create.
  4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

Connect to Hive from FileMaker Pro using Connect Cloud

To establish a connection from FileMaker Pro to the CData Connect Cloud Virtual SQL Server API, follow these steps.

Configure the ODBC Connection to CData Connect Cloud

  1. Download and install the Actual ODBC Driver for SQL Server (actualtech.com)
  2. Configure a DSN for the Actual ODBC driver by setting the following properties:
    • URL: tds.cdata.com
    • Port: Change the port from 1433 to 14333
    • Username: Your Connect Cloud email address
    • Password: the PAT you created earlier

Query Hive from FileMaker Pro

  1. In the SQL Query Builder "SELECT" tab, select the columns to include as part of the query.
  2. Open the "WHERE" tab of the SQL Query Builder and select "Show only selected columns."
  3. In "Table.Column,"" select a table and a column name.
  4. Set the "Operator" to =.
  5. Select "Column," and then select the same table and column name as "Table.Column."
  6. Click "Insert into SQL Query."
  7. If no other modifications to the SQL query are required, click "Execute."

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