Hi Samka,
I am the product manager for SAS/ACCESS and our Hadoop-related products. I think we have some confusion here.
We are constantly evaluating third party data sources, such as MongoDB, to see if we will create dedicated SAS/ACCESS products. As Linus pointed-out, SAS does not develop ODBC drivers to third-party data sources. The database vendor, or another third party, creates ODBC drivers for third party databases.
Our SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC product will work with ODBC 3.5 compliant databases. DataDirect and Simba have created ODBC drivers specifically for MongoDB. There may be a driver that you can download from the MongoDB site. A MongoDB ODBC driver combined with SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC will enable you to access data which is stored in MongoDB.
There is a SAS Global Forum paper on SAS/ACCESS to ODBC that may be of help to you.
An Insider's Guide to SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC
Whether, or not, we create a SAS/ACCESS engine depends upon the strategic interests of SAS. Many factors go into the decision. Unfortunately, I cannot discuss this. I have taken the liberty of submitting your request to our internal tracking system. I can't make any promises, but your request is in the system.
I may be wrong, and I apologize if I am, but you appear to be mixing Hadoop support with that of MongoDB. MongoDB is not an Hadoop distribution. Our list of supported Hadoop distributions is available on the web (SAS 9.4 Supported Hadoop Distributions).
The support statement for non-Hadoop SAS/ACCESS products are available are available in the systems requirements for SAS Foundation. For example - Systems Requirements for SAS 9.4 Foundation for Linux for x64.
*** HEY, GUESS WHAT! ***
SAS/ACCESS Interface to MongoDB has been released!
