I did this and was able to connect to hbase. But since I was using principal and keytab and they are credential mechanism in kerberized system then why did it matter which user I was running sqlline as. And if I want to connect to hbase from outside tool (spotfire) using phoenix driver then how do I get the connection string. ... View more

Hi Josh, In the phoenix datatype description ( link ), its mentioned that Phoenix Unsigned data types map to Hbase Bytes.toBytes method . Is there a way to utilize these unsigned data types to map existing Hbase data to Phoenix tables and be able to read the data correctly from Phoenix. I mapped numbers inserted through Hbase Shell to Unsigned_int datatype in phoenix but i was still getting same error that bsaini was getting in the above question. Could you please clarify if we can use Unsigned_Int in the above scenario. Thanks ... View more