16.1. Installing GeoMesa Bigtable

16.1.1. Installing the Binary Distribution

GeoMesa Bigtable artifacts are available for download or can be built from source. The easiest way to get started is to download the most recent binary version (2.4.1) from GitHub.

Extract it somewhere convenient:

# download and unpackage the most recent distribution:
$ wget "https://github.com/locationtech/geomesa/releases/download/geomesa_2.11-$VERSION/geomesa-bigtable_2.11-$VERSION-bin.tar.gz"
$ tar xvf geomesa-bigtable_2.11-$VERSION-bin.tar.gz
$ cd geomesa-bigtable_2.11-$VERSION
$ ls
bin  conf  dist  docs  examples  lib  LICENSE.txt  logs

To run the command-line tools, the configuration file hbase-site.xml must be on the classpath. This can be accomplished by placing the file in the conf folder. For more information, see Connecting to Cloud Bigtable.

16.1.2. Installing GeoMesa Bigtable in GeoServer

Warning

See GeoServer Versions to ensure that GeoServer is compatible with your GeoMesa version.

The HBase GeoServer plugin is bundled by default in a GeoMesa binary distribution. To install, extract dist/gs-plugins/target/geomesa-bigtable-gs-plugin_2.11-$VERSION-install.tar.gz into GeoServer’s WEB-INF/lib directory. This distribution does not include HBase or Hadoop JARs - the following JARs should be copied into GeoServer’s WEB-INF/lib directory. For convenience, the script bin/install-hadoop-hbase.sh will download them from Maven Central.

  • hbase-annotations-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-client-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-common-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-hadoop2-compat-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-hadoop-compat-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-prefix-tree-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-procedure-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-protocol-1.3.1.jar
  • hbase-server-1.3.1.jar
  • commons-configuration-1.6.jar
  • hadoop-annotations-2.5.2.jar
  • hadoop-auth-2.5.2.jar
  • hadoop-client-2.5.2.jar
  • hadoop-common-2.5.2.jar
  • hadoop-hdfs-2.5.2.jar

(Note the versions may vary depending on your installation.)

The Bigtable data store requires the configuration file hbase-site.xml to be on the classpath. This can be accomplished by placing the file in geoserver/WEB-INF/classes (you should make the directory if it doesn’t exist). For more information, see Connecting to Cloud Bigtable.

Restart GeoServer after the JARs are installed.