Databricks - Stage JDBC - Target environment

This article proposes a possible target environment on Databricks for the Stage JDBC generator.

Installation and configuration of the target environment are not part of biGENIUS support.

Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide any help beyond this example in this article.

Many other configurations and installations are possible for a Databricks target environment.

Below is a possible target environment setup for the Databricks Stage JDBC generator using the Hive catalog.

The Unity Catalog Property must be set to false:

Setup environment

The Databricks target environment needs at least the following Azure resources set in your Azure Subscription:

  • A Ressource Group: some help is available here
  • Inside the Ressource Group:
    • A Storage Account for the Target Data Lake: some help is available here
    • An Azure Databricks Service some help is available here

In the following example of the target environment, we will use the following resources:

  • A Ressource Group named bg-databricks
  • A Storage Account for our Target Data Lake named bgdatabricksdatalake1
  • An Azure Databricks Service named bgaas-testing

Tools to install

Please install the following tools:

  • Azure Storage Explorer: available here

Source data

The source data are coming from a JDBC source.

In this example, we will use a Microsoft SQL Server database stored in Azure in a dedicated resource group:

The Azure database is AdventureWorks2019 and contains the data from the SQL Server sample database AdventureWorks2019.

To be able to access the Microsoft SQL Server from Databricks, you should check the box Allow Azure services and resources to access this server in the Server Networking configuration:

Target Storage Account

We have chosen to create a folder named docu-datalake in our Target Storage Account:

  • Open Azure Storage Explorer
  • Connect to your Subscription
  • Open the Target Storage Account
  • Create a folder 

For this example, we have 1 Target folder for our Data Lake:

Upload Artifacts in Databricks

As your source was not a file, you should add the source schema name before the source Model Object Name in biGENIUS-X, Dataflow Modeling overview. 

Transform CreditCard in Sales.CreditCard, for example.

Please now upload the generated Artifacts from the biGENIUS-X application to the Databricks Workspace.

Please replace the placeholders before uploading the artifacts.

  • Click on the Azure Databricks Service in Azure:
  • Then click on the URL:
  • Databricks is opened:
  • Click on the Workspace menu on the left-hand-side:
  • Expand the folders Workspace > Users and click on your user:
  • We have chosen to create a folder named Artifacts:

  • Import all the generated artifacts from the folder Jupyter, Helpers, and LoadControl:

It is possible to have one or several files not imported as:

It is due to Databricks itself.

Just restart the import for the concerned files, and it should work.

In the file 500_Deploy_and_Load_DataVault_Databricks.ipynb, adapt the name of the XXX_Deployment.ipynb, the XXX_SimpleLoadexecution.ipynb, the XXX_MultithreadingLoadExecution.ipynb, and the XXX_SelectResults.ipynb by the name of your Helper files.

    Create a Compute Cluster

    To be able to execute the Notebooks from our generated artifacts, please create a Compute Cluster in Databricks:

    • Click on the Compute menu on the left-hand-side:
    • Click on the Create compute button:
    • Change the following information:
      • Check "Single node"
      • Databricks runtime version: choose "13.3 LTS (Scala 2.12, Spark 3.4.1)
      • In Advanced Options, Spark, insert all the needed config to authorize your cluster to access the Source and Target Storages Accounts. Following is an example in our environment (should not work the same in your environment):
        • Replace <your_scope> by the name of your scope storing the secret
        • Replace <your_secret> by your secret's name
    fs.azure.account.auth.type.bfmsampledata.dfs.core.windows.net OAuth
    fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type.bfmsampledata.dfs.core.windows.net org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret.bgdatabricksdatalake1.dfs.core.windows.net
    fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type.bgdatabricksdatalake1.dfs.core.windows.net org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider
    fs.azure.account.auth.type.bgdatabricksdatalake1.dfs.core.windows.net OAuth
    spark.hadoop.fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret
    spark.hadoop.fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint <your_secret>
    fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type.bgdatabrickslandingzone1.dfs.core.windows.net org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider
    fs.azure.account.auth.type.bgdatabrickslandingzone1.dfs.core.windows.net OAuth
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret.bgdatabrickslandingzone1.dfs.core.windows.net
    spark.master local[*, 4]
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id.bfmsampledata.dfs.core.windows.net
    spark.databricks.cluster.profile singleNode
    spark.hadoop.fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id
    spark.hadoop.fs.azure.account.auth.type OAuth
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint.bgdatabrickslandingzone1.dfs.core.windows.net <your_secret>
    spark.hadoop.fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint.bfmsampledata.dfs.core.windows.net <your_secret>
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id.bgdatabricksdatalake1.dfs.core.windows.net
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id.bgdatabrickslandingzone1.dfs.core.windows.net
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret.bfmsampledata.dfs.core.windows.net
    fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint.bgdatabricksdatalake1.dfs.core.windows.net <your_secret>
    • If you want to activate the logging:
      • Download the following script: log4j_init_script.sh
      • Import this file in your Databricks workspace (near the artifacts folder)
      • In Advanced Options, Init Scripts, select this file from your workspace:
      • It is then considered on cluster bootup.
    • Click on the Create compute button:
    • Wait until the Cluster is available:

    You're now ready to deploy these artifacts and subsequently load the data based on the Generator you are using with the following possible load controls: