Using pyspark to connect to PostgreSQL - postgresql

Question

I am trying to connect to a database with pyspark and I am using the following code:
sqlctx = SQLContext(sc)
df = sqlctx.load(
url = "jdbc:postgresql://[hostname]/[database]",
dbtable = "(SELECT * FROM talent LIMIT 1000) as blah",
password = "MichaelJordan",
user = "ScottyPippen",
source = "jdbc",
driver = "org.postgresql.Driver"
)
and I am getting the following error:
Any idea why is this happening?
Edit: I am trying to run the code locally in my computer.

Answer 1

Download the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/
Then replace the database configuration values by yours.
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession \
.builder \
.appName("Python Spark SQL basic example") \
.config("spark.jars", "/path_to_postgresDriver/postgresql-42.2.5.jar") \
.getOrCreate()
df = spark.read \
.format("jdbc") \
.option("url", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/databasename") \
.option("dbtable", "tablename") \
.option("user", "username") \
.option("password", "password") \
.option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver") \
.load()
df.printSchema()
More info: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-data-sources-jdbc.html

Answer 2

The following worked for me with postgres on localhost:
Download the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html.
For the pyspark shell you use the SPARK_CLASSPATH environment variable:
$ export SPARK_CLASSPATH=/path/to/downloaded/jar
$ pyspark
For submitting a script via spark-submit use the --driver-class-path flag:
$ spark-submit --driver-class-path /path/to/downloaded/jar script.py
In the python script load the tables as a DataFrame as follows:
from pyspark.sql import DataFrameReader
url = 'postgresql://localhost:5432/dbname'
properties = {'user': 'username', 'password': 'password'}
df = DataFrameReader(sqlContext).jdbc(
url='jdbc:%s' % url, table='tablename', properties=properties
)
or alternatively:
df = sqlContext.read.format('jdbc').\
options(url='jdbc:%s' % url, dbtable='tablename').\
load()
Note that when submitting the script via spark-submit, you need to define the sqlContext.

Answer 3

It is necesary copy postgresql-42.1.4.jar in all nodes... for my case, I did copy in the path /opt/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/jars
Also, i set classpath in ~/.bashrc (export SPARK_CLASSPATH="/opt/spark-2.2.0-bin-hadoop2.7/jars" )
and work fine in pyspark console and jupyter

Answer 4

You normally need either:
to install the Postgres Driver on your cluster,
to provide the Postgres driver jar from your client with the --jars option
or to provide the maven coordinates of the Postgres driver with --packages option.
If you detail how are you launching pyspark, we may give you more details.
Some clues/ideas:
spark-cannot-find-the-postgres-jdbc-driver
Not able to connect to postgres using jdbc in pyspark shell

Answer 5

One approach, building on the example per the quick start guide, is this blog post which shows how to add the --packages org.postgresql:postgresql:9.4.1211 argument to the spark-submit command.
This downloads the driver into ~/.ivy2/jars directory, in my case /Users/derekhill/.ivy2/jars/org.postgresql_postgresql-9.4.1211.jar. Passing this as the --driver-class-path option gives the full spark-submit command of:
/usr/local/Cellar/apache-spark/2.0.2/bin/spark-submit\
--packages org.postgresql:postgresql:9.4.1211\
--driver-class-path /Users/derekhill/.ivy2/jars/org.postgresql_postgresql-9.4.1211.jar\
--master local[4] main.py
And in main.py:
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
dataframe = spark.read.format('jdbc').options(
url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/my_db?user=derekhill&password=''",
database='my_db',
dbtable='my_table'
).load()
dataframe.show()

Answer 6

To use pyspark and jupyter notebook notebook: first open pyspark with
pyspark --driver-class-path /spark_drivers/postgresql-42.2.12.jar --jars /spark_drivers/postgresql-42.2.12.jar
Then in jupyter notebook
import os
jardrv = "~/spark_drivers/postgresql-42.2.12.jar"
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.config('spark.driver.extraClassPath', jardrv).getOrCreate()
url = 'jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1/dbname'
properties = {'user': 'usr', 'password': 'pswd'}
df = spark.read.jdbc(url=url, table='tablename', properties=properties)

Answer 7

I had trouble to get a connection to the postgresDB with the jars i had on my computer.
This code solved my problem with the driver
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
import os
sparkClassPath = os.environ['PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS'] = '--packages org.postgresql:postgresql:42.1.1 pyspark-shell'
spark = SparkSession \
.builder \
.config("spark.driver.extraClassPath", sparkClassPath) \
.getOrCreate()
df = spark.read \
.format("jdbc") \
.option("url", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/yourDBname") \
.option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver") \
.option("dbtable", "yourtablename") \
.option("user", "postgres") \
.option("password", "***") \
.load()
df.show()

Answer 8

I also get this error
java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
at java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(Unknown Source)
and add one item .config('spark.driver.extraClassPath', './postgresql-42.2.18.jar') in SparkSession - that worked.
eg:
from pyspark import SparkContext, SparkConf
import os
from pyspark.sql.session import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession \
.builder \
.appName('Python Spark Postgresql') \
.config("spark.jars", "./postgresql-42.2.18.jar") \
.config('spark.driver.extraClassPath', './postgresql-42.2.18.jar') \
.getOrCreate()
df = spark.read \
.format("jdbc") \
.option("url", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/abc") \
.option("dbtable", 'tablename') \
.option("user", "postgres") \
.option("password", "1") \
.load()
df.printSchema()

Answer 9

This exception means jdbc driver does not in driver classpath.
you can spark-submit jdbc jars with --jar parameter, also add it into driver classpath using spark.driver.extraClassPath.

Answer 10

Download postgresql jar from here:
Add this to ~Spark/jars/ folder.
Restart your kernel.
It should work.

Answer 11

Just initialize pyspark with --jars <path/to/your/jdbc.jar>
E.g.: pyspark --jars /path/Downloads/postgresql-42.2.16.jar
then create a dataframe as suggested above in other answers
E.g.:
df2 = spark.read.format("jdbc").option("url", "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/db").option("dbtable", "yourTableHere").option("user", "postgres").option("password", "postgres").option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver").load()

Answer 12

Download postgres JDBC driver from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html
and use the script below.
Changes to make:
Edit PATH_TO_JAR_FILE
Save your DB credentials in an environment file and load them
Query the DB using query option and limit using fetch size
import os
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
PATH_TO_JAR_FILE = "/home/user/Downloads/postgresql-42.3.3.jar"
spark = SparkSession \
.builder \
.appName("Example") \
.config("spark.jars", PATH_TO_JAR_FILE) \
.getOrCreate()
DB_HOST = os.environ.get("PG_HOST")
DB_PORT = os.environ.get("PG_PORT")
DB_NAME = os.environ.get("PG_DB_CLEAN")
DB_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("PG_PASSWORD")
DB_USER = os.environ.get("PG_USERNAME")
df = spark.read \
.format("jdbc") \
.option("url", f"jdbc:postgresql://{DB_HOST}:{DB_PORT}/{DB_NAME}") \
.option("user", DB_USER) \
.option("password", DB_PASSWORD) \
.option("driver", "org.postgresql.Driver") \
.option("query","select * from your_table") \
.option('fetchsize',"1000") \
.load()
df.printSchema()