ODBC Driver for Elasticsearch SQL

This is the ODBC driver for Elasticsearch's SQL plugin. The driver implements the Unicode version of the 3.80 API release.

Elastic License Functionality

The driver files in this repository are subject to the Elastic License. The full license can be found in LICENSE.txt. Usage requires a subscription. Files that are not subject to the Elastic License are in the libs directory.

Supported platforms

The desired target platform is Microsoft Windows, past and including version 7. Full support will include Linux and OSX, on both x86 and amd64 architectures.

For alpha release the supported platforms are:

• Windows 10
• Windows Server 2016

The installer will check the platform using winver and abort installation if not running on a supported platform.

Running Requirements

On the client side, the ODBC driver requires the OS'es Driver Manager to interface between the clients and the driver itself. On the server side, the requirements follow Elasticsearch SQL's requirements.

Building Requirements

CMake

The project is CMake enabled, which generates the environment-dependent build pipeline. This is a general build requirement.

The building itself is then delegated to the platform-specific tools (MSVC or make).

External libraries/headers

The driver makes use of the following libraries/headers:

• ODBC-Specification
  • this is the project that currently contains the ODBC specification, including the headers defining the ODBC C API;
• libcurl
  • the library is used for the HTTP(S) communication with Elasticsearch REST endpoint;
• c-timestamp
  • the library is used for parsing the ISO 8601 formated timestamps received from Elasticsearch;
• ujson4c
  • fast scanner library for JSON.

The required libraries are added as subtrees to the project, in the libs directory:

   somedirectory\
    |_elasticsearch-sql-odbc
      |_README.md
      |_CMakeLists.txt
      |_build.bat
      |_driver
      |_builds
      |_libs
        |_ODBC-Specification
        |_curl
        |_c-timestamp
        |_ujson4c

Windows

MSVC

Building the driver requires the installation of Microsoft tools. These can be from the Visual Studio pack or with the standalone tools.

Version 2017 Enterprize 15.5.2 is used to develop with, older versions should work fine too, with their corresponding modules. The lists of packages for MSVC 2017 are given below.

Required packages:

• MSBuild
  • as the build tool;
• Windows 10 SDK
  • headers and libraries;
• VC++ toolset
  • for the compiler;
• C++/CLI support
  • for the DSN editor C to C# CLI binding;
• C# support
  • for the DSN editor C# form;
• F# support
  • for the MSI packaging.

Optional packages:

• CMake Project Wizards
• C++ profiling tools
• Git for Windows / GitHub Extentions for VisualStudio

Powershell

Powershell is currently used to automatically generate the definition file of the symbols to export in the driver DLL. The definition file is required, since Windows' shared objects symbols are by default not exported.

Building

Windows MSVC

Start Visual Studio and menu-access File > Open > "CMake..". Navigate to the checkout folder of the project and select the file CMakeLists.txt. Once the file is read and imported, a new menu top item will appear, CMake. Menu-access CMake > "BuildAll".

Windows CLI

The project contains a BAT script - build.bat - that can run different steps for building the ODBC driver.

Some environment parameters can be set to customized its behavior (see start of script).

The script can also take a set of parameters, run build.bat help to see what they mean. build.bat will build the driver itself, by invoking CMake and MSBuild, as needed. build.bat proper will clean the project to initial state. build.bat all tests will run the unit tests.

Installation

See: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/sql-odbc/current/index.html