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DeltaForge ODBC Driver is a connectivity component published by DeltaForge that enables standards-based access to modern data lake table formats from a wide range of client applications. The driver implements the ODBC 3.80 specification, allowing organizations to query Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg tables directly from tools such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and any other ODBC-capable software. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between traditional business intelligence and analytics applications—many of which rely on ODBC as their primary data access interface—and open table formats that are commonly used in contemporary data lake and lakehouse architectures. By presenting Delta Lake and Iceberg tables through a familiar ODBC interface, the driver removes the need for specialized connectors or intermediate data copies, letting analysts and reporting tools work with lakehouse data through the same mechanisms they already use for conventional databases. Typical use cases include building dashboards and reports in Power BI or Tableau against Delta Lake or Iceberg tables, performing ad hoc analysis in Excel, and integrating lakehouse data into any workflow or application that supports ODBC data sources. The software falls into the database connectivity and driver category, specifically within the broader area of data access middleware for analytics and business intelligence platforms. The current release is version 1.2.0, and the catalog records three versions of the driver in total, indicating an ongoing release history with incremental updates delivered by the publisher over time. Organizations standardizing on Delta Lake or Iceberg as their table formats can use DeltaForge ODBC Driver to make those tables broadly accessible across their existing analytics and reporting toolsets without requiring those tools to natively understand the underlying table formats.
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