Error getting data from Hbase 1.1 using Phoenix 4.x with Python 2.x

Question

I am beginner with Phoenix, HBase and Python and am writing a small POC using Pyspark to retrieve some basic information from HBase DB using Phoenix.

Here is my code snippet.

query = 'select count(PK) from A_Model.TableA'
jdbc_url = 'jdbc:phoenix:..xxx/hbase-secure'
df_records = sparkConfig.getSqlContext().read.format('jdbc')\
                  .options(driver='org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver', url=jdbc_url, dbtable=query).load()

When trying to run this using spark-submit, i get the following error

`
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/users/s190641/Tejas_Test/ahi_rpt_test.py", line 54, in <module>
    main()
  ...
  ...
    .options(driver='org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver', url=jdbc_url, dbtable=query).load()
  File "/usr/hdp/current/spark-client/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py", line 139, in load
  File "/usr/hdp/current/spark-client/python/lib/py4j-0.9-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 813, in __call__
  File "/usr/hdp/current/spark-client/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 45, in deco
  File "/usr/hdp/current/spark-client/python/lib/py4j-0.9-src.zip/py4j/protocol.py", line 308, in get_return_value
py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o62.load.
: org.apache.phoenix.exception.PhoenixParserException: ERROR 601 (42P00): Syntax error. Encountered "select" at line 1, column 15.
        at org.apache.phoenix.exception.PhoenixParserException.newException(PhoenixParserException.java:33)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.SQLParser.parseStatement(SQLParser.java:111)
        at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement$PhoenixStatementParser.parseStatement(PhoenixStatement.java:1280)
        at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixStatement.parseStatement(PhoenixStatement.java:1363)
        at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixPreparedStatement.<init>(PhoenixPreparedStatement.java:94)
        at org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixConnection.prepareStatement(PhoenixConnection.java:723)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRDD$.resolveTable(JDBCRDD.scala:122)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.JDBCRelation.<init>(JDBCRelation.scala:91)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.jdbc.DefaultSource.createRelation(DefaultSource.scala:57)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.ResolvedDataSource$.apply(ResolvedDataSource.scala:158)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:119)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:231)
        at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:381)
        at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:259)
        at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
        at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
        at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:209)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: NoViableAltException(133@[])
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.table_factor(PhoenixSQLParser.java:6195)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.table_ref(PhoenixSQLParser.java:6083)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.table_list(PhoenixSQLParser.java:6019)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.parseFrom(PhoenixSQLParser.java:5984)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.single_select(PhoenixSQLParser.java:4612)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.unioned_selects(PhoenixSQLParser.java:4714)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.select_node(PhoenixSQLParser.java:4780)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.oneStatement(PhoenixSQLParser.java:789)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.PhoenixSQLParser.statement(PhoenixSQLParser.java:508)
        at org.apache.phoenix.parse.SQLParser.parseStatement(SQLParser.java:108)
        ... 20 more
`

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '18 at 16:41

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As explained in Spark SQL - load data with JDBC using SQL statement, not table name, you should use subquery:

query = '(select count(PK) from A_Model.TableA) AS some_name'

but in practice it is recommended to use connector, not JDBC:

Although Spark supports connecting directly to JDBC databases, it’s only able to parallelize queries by partioning on a numeric column. It also requires a known lower bound, upper bound and partition count in order to create split queries.

In contrast, the phoenix-spark integration is able to leverage the underlying splits provided by Phoenix in order to retrieve and save data across multiple workers. All that’s required is a database URL and a table name. Optional SELECT columns can be given, as well as pushdown predicates for efficient filtering.

answered Jan 29 '18 at 16:41

Alper t. Turker

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Thank you very much! This worked, However i don't find the list of options supported by the sqlContext.read.option method. I need to select only a few columns from the table and probably provide a predicate as well to filter the rows out. Any references? – RookieDev Jan 29 '18 at 17:55
This should work with standard `select` and `filter` / `where` without any special `options`. – Alper t. Turker Jan 29 '18 at 18:00
Can you help me with one of my other questions on the same topic? [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48525096/exception-unread-block-data-with-pyspark-phoenix-and-hbase) – RookieDev Jan 30 '18 at 16:22

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