Accessing data from Cloudera Impala

You can access data from Cloudera Impala systems in Spotfire.

About this task

To connect to data in Cloudera Impala systems, you use the connector for Cloudera Impala. To learn about the functionality and features available when you work with data from these systems, see Connector for Cloudera Impala — Features and settings.

Before you begin

The Cloudera Impala connector requires a driver on the computer running Spotfire. See Drivers and data sources in Spotfire. To make sure that your database is supported, see the system requirements for the Cloudera Impala connector.

Procedure

Open the Files and data flyout, and click Connect to.
In the list of data sources, select Cloudera Impala.
In the panel on the right, choose if you want to create a new connection or add data from a shared data connection:
- Opening a shared data connection from the library
- Create new connection