Obtain and Install Drivers for HBase

The Phoenix JDBC driver enables tables or views created through Phoenix to be available to TDV. Tables in HBase do not automatically get mapped to Phoenix. Refer to Apache Phoenix documentation for how to map existing HBase tables to Phoenix views and tables.

To install and configure JDBC drivers for HBase

1.

From the Apache Phoenix download page, determine which version of Phoenix is compatible with your version of HBase. For example, Phoenix 4.1.0,.

2.

Download the <filename>-bin.tar.gz file.

3.

Unpack the zip file and copy the following JAR files:

phoenix-<ver>-client-hadoop2.jar 

4.

Paste the necessary client file into the following TDV directory:

<TDV_install_dir>\conf\adapters\system\hbase_0_98_apache_phoenix_driver

5.

Add the Phoenix server JAR file to the HBase classpath on all region servers. See Apache Phoenix documentation for instructions on how to manage the classpath.

6.

Restart the TDV Server.

Refer to the Installation guide for more details about the supported versions.