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does phoenix have a thrift or restful api?

sunile_manjee — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:08:45 GMT

Does phoenix have a thrift or restful api to interface with it. I found this code on restful api with phoenix but it is not in the HDP stack. Do i need to put this up as a idea?

Re: does phoenix have a thrift or restful api?

rgelhausen — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:14:00 GMT

@Sunile Manjee

have a look at the phoenix query server. It's a beta feature in HDP, but is installable via Ambari. When you pick which nodes should be clients, datanodes, nodemanagers, etc, you can check the Phoenix Query Server box.

Re: does phoenix have a thrift or restful api?

bleonhardi — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:03:41 GMT

This!

Query server essentially is built on Apache Calcite and jas a JSON API interface.

https://phoenix.apache.org/server.html

http://calcite.apache.org/avatica/docs/json_reference.html

I would think however that its way too much work to write a client using a REST API over this. If you want to create a web application, something like jquery with the jdbc client sounds much more appealing.

( Or go against HBase directly )