Blogs

SQL Workbench is one of many applications that use drivers to query and view data. …

The Simba Marketo JDBC Driver enables Business Intelligence (BI), analytics, and reporting on data that …

In today’s data-driven economy, data analytics is a powerful differentiator for businesses to gain insights …

Before configuring the driver, make sure you have the iODBC driver manager installed. For iODBC …

The SQuirreL SQL client provides a simple graphical interface to relational databases. Because it is …

When building an ODBC driver, Microsoft’s ODBC Test can be used to test the driver. …

I was never the cool kid in school, which is clear when you consider that …

Workbench/J is a free SQL query tool that helps developers to run SQL scripts (either …

Before configuring an ODBC driver on a Mac, you will need to download and install …

MongoDB is an increasingly popular NoSQL database. As more and more companies take advantage of …

Microsoft’s ODBC Test is a great way to test an ODBC driver you are building …

Having spent more than two decades at the leading edge of the data management sector entrenched in its evolution and leading businesses across big data, data management and connectivity, I’m an ‘industry veteran’ in corporate speak. So at this defining point in my career, there are many boxes to tick in choosing my next move. After careful deliberation, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Magnitude Software as General Manager for its Connectivity business.

Starting on July 22 2017, Salesforce will begin disabling TLS 1.0 support and will require …

We are delighted to announce that we have added support for “Create Table as Select” …

We believe in continuously investing in our SimbaEngine SDK software, to provide benefit for our …

Today, we announced the launch of version two of our Cassandra ODBC connector. The release introduces …

ODBC and JDBC Driver development gets easier with SimbaEngine SDK v10.1, the next minor release …

Need database access in your Ruby application?  With Simba’s ODBC drivers, you can easily connect …

Simba Technologies allows you to easily connect any ODBC application to Salesforce on the Mac …

Today we have released SimbaEngine SDK X, v 10.0.6, the next minor release of the …

In SimbaEngine X, v.10.0.5, we are pleased to announce a significant performance optimization in our …

Big news today! I’m happy to announce that Simba Technologies is now the newest member …

ODBC and JDBC specifications define escape sequences to standardize syntax for the data source-specific features, …

Tableau has an experimental feature that allows customers to fine-tune parts of their ODBC data …

Structured Query Language (SQL) was originally designed as an intuitive query language for relational data …

This week Couchbase launched the latest version of Couchbase Server, a distributed, document-oriented NoSQL database with …

From May 24-25, I had the opportunity to join the community in conversation at HBaseCon …

Wow!  Just one day after the anniversary of D-Day, Microsoft announces ODBC 4.0.  This is …

The Simba Engineering team has been hard at work on the new and vastly improved …

With the introduction of the Amazon Redshift service, data analysts get access to a fully managed …

Simba’s MongoDB ODBC Driver makes it easy to explore your MongoDB data in Qlik Sense.  …

We have just wrapped up our second annual Simba Partner Summit in San Jose. The …

In a previous post, I discussed the automatic schema generation capabilities of Simba’s new MongoDB …

This week’s unveiling of the latest MicroStrategy Analytics application reminds me again, how much did …

A lot has changed in MongoDB since the last major release of the Simba MongoDB …

Soon, Salesforce will be changing the versions of SSL/TLS connections which will be supported.  Connections …

The SimbaEngine SDK enables you to build and develop custom ODBC Drivers for Windows, Linux, …

ODBC driver performance is an important concern, particularly when you’re using ODBC connectivity with popular BI …

Enabling tracing at the driver-manager level is a useful way to troubleshoot ODBC driver issues. …

This guest post is by Tim Wong of Simba Technologies partner Couchbase. ODBC has been around …

The Simba Technologies website has a new face! We have redesigned Simba.com to give it …

Simba computer scientist Mike Howard authored this blog post on N1QL data manipulation and ODBC connectivity for …

The SimbaEngine SDK™ allows you to build a custom ODBC driver with which you can …

The Cassandra community continues to impress me with their vigor and openness. 2015 is another …

With the Simba Technologies SimbaEngine SDK™, you can build your own custom OBDC, OLEDB, JDBC, …

As promised in our webinar “Connect SAP Lumira to MongoDB Data with the Data Extension …

Every day we hear from data source providers that have asked Tableau for advice on …

I am at the Teradata Partners user conference this week and one of the highlights …

Couchbase Server is a fast and scalable NoSQL solution. It can reduce the cost and …

This year’s Strata + Hadoop World in New York City was all about “Making Data …

I am excited to be at the Strata Hadoop World conference in New York this …

In today’s data driven world, analyzing data is key to success.  Analyzing data across multiple …

We just passed Labour Day so it’s back to the grind for everyone. And what …

Today, Couchbase announced the release of Couchbase Server 4.0 Release Candidate. In conjunction with this …

Remote data access on mobile devices presents developers and users with a number of unique challenges not found in server or desktop environments. Unreliable network connections, battery life optimization, and security implications are the major factors that need to be considered by developers and end users. This post gives a brief overview of these issues and offers some best practices.

Today, Simba announced that its connectivity platform has been licensed by SAP for use with …

I was reading an article by Dan Woods at Forbes.com titled “Can Hortonworks Dominate The …

35 days. As part of benchmarking our ResultSet compression protocol, we wanted to set up …

Simba ODBC, JDBC Connectivity Makes it Easy to Connect Any Data Source to Leading NoSQL …

Mitesh Shah is a senior Business Intelligence consultant for Decision First Technologies, a BI consulting …

Storage plugin extensibility is a key feature of Apache Drill. Drill supports Hive, HBase, and …

In order to build engaging visual analytics that help people understand their data, Tableau BI …

This year’s just-wrapped Hadoop Summit 2015–particularly the exhibit hall–was somewhat subdued compared to last year. …

Couchbase Connect wrapped up last week, and I had the pleasure of attending and giving …

Exciting news! Couchbase Server 4.0 Beta was announced this morning at Couchbase Connect 2015 currently taking place June 2 …

May is conference month and the memorable event–for all the ideas and progress over the past year–for …

Different ways of mapping MongoDB’s nested documents to relational schema, allowing analysis via BI tools and SQL

Concur handles expense reports. A LOT of expense reports. Think billions. As the world’s leading …

Question How long will it take to sort 100TB of data? 100TB. Think about it …

Couchbase and Simba will be at Informatica World 2015 on May 11 to 15. Curious …

Update: The Beta versions of the ODBC and JDBC connectivity solutions are now available: https://www.simba.com/couchbase/couchbase-odbc-jdbc-connectivity-solutions-beta-now-available  For the …

The past weekend was Europe’s transition to daylight savings time. The past three weeks is what I …

Being part of Simba gives you chances to explore not only the realm of any …

This year’s opening event on the Big Data circuit–Strata Hadoop World–was prefaced the day before by Pivotal’s …

Another Strata + Hadoop World event has come and gone, and well, what can I …