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Databricks JDBC Driver
Databricks JDBC Driver is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced July 2024.
Simba JDBC Driver (Legacy) Databricks JDBC Driver
The open source JDBC driver, version 3 and above, for connecting tools such as DataGrip, DBeaver, and SQL Workbench/J to Databricks.
- Databricks wrote this one itself and then published the source under Apache 2.0, so you can read exactly how your query results get fetched.
- It can run queries through the Statement Execution APIs instead of Thrift, which the docs credit with the 'beneficial query result retention feature'.
- Java 8 holdouts get their own branch, which Databricks syncs with main only periodically and then politely invites the community to keep updated.
Limitations: Requires Java Runtime Environment 11.0 or above, with CI testing only on JRE 11, 17, and 21; Java 8 compatibility lives on a separate JDK 8 branch that is synced with main only periodically.
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- Developer experience
- Also known as
- Databricks JDBC Driver (OSS), databricks-jdbc, OSS JDBC driver
- Verified
- 2026-08-20