Simba Spark ODBC Driver

Simba Spark ODBC Driver was renamed - Databricks now calls it Databricks ODBC Driver, as of February 2026.

Simba Spark ODBC Driver → Databricks ODBC Driver

The ODBC driver for connecting BI tools and applications to Databricks SQL warehouses and clusters.

• An OEM driver licensed from Simba Technologies that let Tableau and other BI tools speak ODBC to your cluster; its lineage traces back to a 2014 driver built for Shark, Spark's early SQL front-end. 🔗

Category

Developer experience

In use from

2014🔗

Renamed

February 2026🔗

Verified

2026-07-23