title: Microsoft PowerBI with Hortonworks Hive/HBase/Spark Integration
body: <p>I'm thrilled with Microsoft's offering with PowerBI but still not able to find any possible direct way to integrate with my Hortonworks Hadoop cluster.
  I went through the tutorials and found two things:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>PowerBI can fetch data from HDInsights Azure cluster using thrift, if that's possible then is it possible to connect with any other Hadoop distro to connect to it as well?</p></li>
  <li><p>We can connect using ODBC driver which is offered by Simba Technologies but I was wondering if it's possible to connect using Apache Phoenix drivers which offer JDBC drivers for HBase?</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Appreciate your thoughts/suggestions/help!</p>