https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/JDBC-Connection-to-phoenix-failed/m-p/232768#M194603 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/38161/arohit91.html" nodeid="38161">@ROHIT AILA</A></P><P>If you want to connect using Phoenix APIs (phoenix URL<STRONG>"jdbc:phoenix:"</STRONG>) then you will have to load Driver Class of type "</P><P>"org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver"</P><PRE>import org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver; Class.forName("org.apache.phoenix.jdbc.PhoenixDriver"); Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rset = null; Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:phoenix:zk1,zk2,zk3:2181:/hbase-unsecure");</PRE><P>.</P> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:51:41 GMT jsensharma 2017-08-22T23:51:41Z