Installing the JDBC Driver

The JDBC destination includes drivers for the following databases:
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL

When using the stage to connect to any other database, you must install the JDBC driver for the database. Install the driver as an external library for the JDBC stage library.

By default, Transformer bundles a JDBC driver into the launched Spark application so that the driver is available on each node in the cluster. If you prefer to manually install an appropriate JDBC driver on each Spark node, you can configure the stage to skip bundling the driver on the Advanced tab of the stage properties.

If you install a JDBC driver provided by one of the following vendors, the stage automatically detects the JDBC driver class name from the configured JDBC connection string:
  • Apache Derby
  • IBM DB2
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Teradata

If you install a custom JDBC driver or a driver provided by another vendor, you must specify the JDBC driver class name on the Advanced tab of the stage.