DbSchema for HBase Database

DbSchema is a powerful database management and design tool for HBase. It offers features such as visual schema design, team collaboration with GIT, schema deployment and HTML schema documentation.

How to Connect to HBase Database

  1. Access the Connection Dialog

    Choose "Connect to the database" or "New Model Connected to the Database" will let you select your database and open the Connection Dialog.

    DbSchema automatically downloads the JDBC driver to connect to your database.

  2. Configure the Connection

    3. In the Connection Dialog window, select the JDBC URL you want to connect with. If your database is running in the cloud, choose Edit Manually and insert the JDBC URL from the cloud console.

    Enter the host name, the authentication details, select your database as described in the Connection Dialog page.

  3. Troubleshoot Firewall Issues
    4. If you encounter connection issues, it may be due to firewall settings. Read how to enable Firewall Connections.
Remember to enable Windows Firewalls Firewalls & anti-viruses may block database connections.

Connect to a HBase Server

The connection dialog is explained here.

DbSchema connects to HBase using the driver from Apache Phoenix. This driver require to copy a jar file on all HBase region servers and master and remove any previous version. Please read the installation instructions.

DbSchema includes the JDBC driver only for HBase version 2.5. For other versions, please copy the phoenix-client-hbase-[hbase.version].jar file from the bin distribution in the User Home directory ./DbSchema/drivers/HBase, and restart DbSchema. The driver version is shown in the Connection dialog.

Read about the Phoenix JDBC driver.

Connect to HBase