https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Connection-to-big-data-sources-like-Hadoop-with-Impala/m-p/91735#M41686 Has anyone queried and retrieved data from big data sources like Hadoop with Impala. I'm planning to try a modified OLEDB VBO but would like use best practices if it's already been solved. Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:09:00 GMT KimStroh 2017-12-07T19:09:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Connection-to-big-data-sources-like-Hadoop-with-Impala/m-p/91735#M41686 Has anyone queried and retrieved data from big data sources like Hadoop with Impala. I'm planning to try a modified OLEDB VBO but would like use best practices if it's already been solved. Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:09:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Connection-to-big-data-sources-like-Hadoop-with-Impala/m-p/91735#M41686 KimStroh 2017-12-07T19:09:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Connection-to-big-data-sources-like-Hadoop-with-Impala/m-p/91736#M41687 Our OLEDB VBO is somewhat simplistic - if you are going to create your own modified version of it I would recommend stucturing it more like the SQL Server VBO so that you can have transactions (if the datasources you mention are compatible with transactions) - that would allow for more robust use of your data layer. Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:08:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Connection-to-big-data-sources-like-Hadoop-with-Impala/m-p/91736#M41687 Denis__Dennehy 2018-01-03T21:08:00Z