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

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)