Installing and Using the Simba Amazon Athena JDBC Connector

To install the Simba Amazon Athena JDBC Connector on your machine, extract the appropriate JAR file from the ZIP archive to the directory of your choice.

Important:

If you received a license file through email, then you must copy the file into the same directory as the connector JAR file before you can use the Simba Amazon Athena JDBC Connector.

To access the Athena service using the Simba Amazon Athena JDBC Connector, you need to configure the following:

The list of connector library files (see Referencing the JDBC Connector Libraries)
The Driver or DataSource class (see Registering the Connector Class)
The connection URL for the connector (see Building the Connection URL)

You can use the Simba Amazon Athena JDBC Connector in a JDBC application or a Java application.

For an example workflow that demonstrates how to use the connector in a JDBC application, see Example: Using the Connector in SQL Workbench.
For code examples that demonstrate how to use the connector in a Java application, see Examples: Using the Connector in a Java Application.