Qlikview bigdata connectivity

[vijetas42]

Hi,

Is there any connector available to connect qlikview with phoenix sql layer to access hdfs (hadoop file system) data?

[petter]

Apache Phoenix works as a fast SQL layer on top of HBase that runs on HDFS. Hortonworks has provided an ODBC driver that would be easy to use from QlikView to connect to Apache Phoenix:

http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/phoenix-odbc/1.0.0.1000/windows/HortonworksPhoenixODBC64.ms...

I don't know about the licensing of this driver - you'll have to check at the Hortonworks site or with their sales representatives.

[petter]

Simba Technologies (now part of Magnitude) also have a Phoenix ODBC driver that I am pretty sure has to be licensed but there is a free evaluation you can use to test with:

https://www.simba.com/drivers/phoenix-odbc-jdbc/

[vijetas42]

Thanks Petter!

is there any reference document for the same.

Regards,

Vijeta

[petter]

A more implementation costly solution would be to go for using the Qlik SSE (Server Side Extension) to connect via Python and using Phoenix's Python library. The use case has to be considered and it will require quite a bit more understanding of Qlik, Python and SSE to implement. This gives full support from Load Script and from Qlik expression language in the apps for near-real-time integration towards Phoenix.

Python Driver for Phoenix | Apache Phoenix

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There is a Place (subsite) on Qlik Community devoted to Advanced Analytics Integration: Advanced Analytics Integration. NB! don't let the name Advanced Analytics fool you - it is really just a good "marketing" term but the technology underpinning this is not limited to only Advanced Analytics it can be used as a generic back-end server calculation integration too with SSE.

Java could also be an option with Qlik SSE and the samples from Qlik on Github shows how to create "middelware" with Java and Qlik SSE and then the JDBC connectivity could be used: https://github.com/qlik-oss/server-side-extension

[petter]

Learned today that Qlik Sense June 2018 will include an Apache Phoenix ODBC driver... maybe it will be a part of QlikView in the near future - I am quite confident that it will.

[petter]

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