ODBC prerequisites
There are several requirements your client systems must meet before you can install the Vertica ODBC drivers.
Operating system
The Vertica ODBC driver requires a supported platform. The list of currently-supported platforms can be found at Client drivers support.
ODBC driver manager
ODBC driver requires that the client system have a supported driver manager. See Installing driver managers on Linux and other UNIX-like platforms for details.
UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 support
The Vertica ODBC driver is a universal driver that supports UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 encoding. The default setting depends on the client platform. (see Required ODBC driver configuration settings for Linux and UNIX for more information).
When using the driver with the DataDirect Connect driver manager, DataDirect Connect adapts to the ODBC driver's text encoding settings. You should configure the ODBC driver to use the encoding method that your application requires. This allows strings to be passed between the driver and the application without intermediate conversion.