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Enabling Vertica native load balancing on Pentaho

  • April 3, 2015
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AmitNair

We use Pentaho Kettle (v4.1) to run ETL on Vertica (v7.0.1). We want to use Native Connection Load Balancing to distribute the load better. However we have not found a way to enable ConnectionLoadBalance=1 via Pentaho.

 

Could you guide us on how to enable it on Kettle? Our connections are defined as JDBC.

 

If specified as a parameter (in Options for the connection), it fails with below error.

 

Error occured while trying to connect to the database

 

Error connecting to database: (using class com.vertica.Driver)

FATAL: Database "warehouse;ConnectionLoadBalance=Y" does not exist

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AmitNair
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  • April 3, 2015

Figured it out. 

- Upgraded Kettle to v5.3

- Changed connection to VERTICA5

- Added option for ConnectionLoadBalance=1