I'm new to nifi and i want to connect SQL server database to nifi and create a data flow with the processors. how can I do this, can any one Help me with this clearly.
Thanks in Advance sam
I'm new to nifi and i want to connect SQL server database to nifi and create a data flow with the processors. how can I do this, can any one Help me with this clearly.
Thanks in Advance sam
Here are two great articles on getting information in and out of databases with NiFi:
http://www.batchiq.com/database-injest-with-nifi.html
http://www.batchiq.com/database-extract-with-nifi.html
They describe/illustrate how to configure a DBCPConnectionPool service to provide connection(s) to an RDBMS, and example flows to extract data and ingest data.
Expanding on mattyb answer
If you are using the latest Hortonworks sandbox, or other setup that uses docker containers, read below.
You have to install the JDBC jar file inside the docker. For SQL Server, it should be 6.2 or above.
docker ps
docker exec -it <mycontainer uuid> bash
How to get into a docker container? will help you log into the container.
cd file:///usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/
mkdir jdbc
cd ./jdbc
wget https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/F/7/3F74A9B9-C5F0-43EA-A721-07DA590FD186/sqljdbc_6.2.2.0_enu.tar.gz
tar xvzf sqljdbc_6.2.2.0_enu.tar.gz
cp ./sqljdbc_6.2/enu/mssql-jdbc-6.2.2.jre8.jar ./
jdbc:sqlserver://192.168.1.201:1433;databaseName=[your database] com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
You may change file:///usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/ to any path you desire.
Expanding on TamusJRoyce's answer
If you are running nifi via a docker image like apache/nifi
or the aforementioned Hortonworks sandbox, the following should help you get the required driver on the image so that you don't need to exec
into the container to do it manually.
See the comments below the docker file
FROM apache/nifi
USER root
RUN mkdir /lib/jdbc
WORKDIR /lib/jdbc
RUN wget https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/F/7/3F74A9B9-C5F0-43EA-A721-07DA590FD186/sqljdbc_6.2.2.0_enu.tar.gz
RUN tar xvzf sqljdbc_6.2.2.0_enu.tar.gz
RUN cp ./sqljdbc_6.2/enu/mssql-jdbc-6.2.2.jre8.jar ./
USER nifi
EXPOSE 8080 8443 10000 8000
WORKDIR ${NIFI_HOME}
ENTRYPOINT ["../scripts/start.sh"]
apache/nifi
as the base image. You can use any nifi docker image has a base if you would like.lib/jdbc
, just remember that you need to use this as the reference for the file location so that it is referenced as file:///lib/jdbc/mssql-jdbc-6.2.2.jre8.jar