Connect to Impala using impyla client with Kerberos auth

Question

I\'m on a W8 machine, where I use Python (Anaconda distribution) to connect to Impala in our Hadoop cluster using the

Answer 1

Try this to get tables for kerberized cluster. In my case CDH-5.14.2-1.

Make sure you have a valid ticket before running this code.

with python 2.7 having below packages.

thrift-0.9.3
thriftpy-0.3.8
thrift_sasl-0.3.0
impyla==0.14.2.2

Working Code

from impala.dbapi import connect
from impala.util import as_pandas

# 21000 is impala daemon port.
conn = connect(host='yourHost', port=21050, auth_mechanism='GSSAPI') 

cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("SHOW TABLES")
# After running .execute(), Impala will store the result sets on the server
# until it is fetched. Use the method .fetchall() to pull the entire result
# set over the network (you should only do it if you know dataset is small)
tables = cursor.fetchall()

print("Displaying list of tables")
# the result is a list of tuples
for t in tables:
    # we know that each row in SHOW TABLES result
    # should only contains one table name
    print(t[0])
    # exit() enable for only one table

print("eol >>>")

Answer 2

To connection Impala using python you can follow below steps,

1. Install Coludera ODBC Driver for Impala.

2. Create DSN using 64-bit ODBC driver, put your server details, below is sample screen shot for same

   3. Use below code snippet for connectivity

      import pyodbc

      with pyodbc.connect("DSN=impala_con", autocommit=True) as conn: ... df = pd.read_sql("", conn)

Answer 3

Install the kerberos Python package, it will fix your issue.

Answer 4

I ran into the same issue but i fixed it by installing the right version of required libraries.

Install below python libraries using pip:

six==1.12.0
bit_array==0.1.0
thrift==0.9.3
thrift_sasl==0.2.1
sasl==0.2.1
impyla==0.13.8

Below code is working fine with the python version 2.7 and 3.4.

import ssl
from impala.dbapi import connect
import os
os.system("kinit")
conn = connect(host='hostname.io', port=21050, use_ssl=True, database='default', user='urusername', kerberos_service_name='impala', auth_mechanism = 'GSSAPI')
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute('SHOW DATABASES;')
result=cur.fetchall()
for data in result:
    print (data) 

Answer 5

For me, installing this package fixed it: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

Answer 6

For me, the following connection parameters worked. I did not have to install any additional packages in python.

connect(host="your_host", port=21050, auth_mechanism='GSSAPI', timeout=100000, use_ssl=False, ca_cert=None, ldap_user=None, ldap_password=None, kerberos_service_name='impala')