Create an HBase data object to specify an HBase resource.
Select a project or folder in the Object Explorer view.
Click
File
New
Data Object
.
Select
HBase Data Object
and click
Next
.
The
New HBase Data Object
dialog box appears.
Enter a name for the data object.
Click
Browse
next to the
Location
option and select the target project or folder.
Click
Browse
next to the
Connection
option and select a connection from which you want to import the HBase resource.
To add a resource to the data object, click
Add
next to the
Resource
option.
If a default Metadata Access Service is not set, a message appears to configure the Metadata Access Service. Click
OK
and set one Metadata Access Service as default. After you set a default Metadata Access Service, the
Add Resource
dialog box appears. If the Metadata Access Service does not exist, contact the Informatica administrator to create a new Metadata Access Service.
Navigate or search for the resources to add to the data object and click
OK
.
You can add one HBase table to the data object.
Click
Next
. The
Column Families
dialog box appears.
Select a column family and specify the columns in it. Choose to add columns or get all columns.
To manually add, or search and add columns to the column family, select the
Add Columns
option.
To read from or write all columns in the column family to a single binary column, select the
Get all columns
option.
Add the columns in the column family. Choose to add columns or search the column names in the column family and add the columns.
To specify the columns from the column family when you know the column name and data type, select the column family to which you want to add the columns and click
Add
. Configure the add properties.
To search columns in the column family and add them, click
Search and Add
. The
Search and Add
dialog box appears.
Specify the following details in the
Search and Add
dialog box:
Specify the maximum rows in the HBase tables you want to include in the search.
Specify the threshold value of the column occurrence percentage.
Click
Go
.
The column name and the occurrence percentage of the column in the table appears in the results.
Select the columns that you want to specify for the column family. Configure the add properties.
Click
Next.
The
Create Row
dialog box appears.
Select the
Include Row ID
option to generate a row ID for the HBase table.
Specify the data type, precision, and scale for the row ID and click
Next.
The
Review Columns
dialog box appears. The column family name is the prefix for all the column names in that column family for unique identification. Default data type of the row ID is String.
Review the columns in the column families and click
Finish
.
The data object appears under Data Object in the project or folder in the Object Explorer view. You can also add resources to a data object after you create it.