Creating a data source using Apache Spark - Amazon Quick Suite
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Creating a data source using Apache Spark

You can connect directly to Apache Spark using Quick Sight, or you can connect to Spark through Spark SQL. Using the results of queries, or direct links to tables or views, you create data sources in Quick Sight. You can either directly query your data through Spark, or you can import the results of your query into SPICE.

Before you use Quick Sight with Spark products, you must configure Spark for Quick Sight.

Quick Sight requires your Spark server to be secured and authenticated using LDAP, which is available to Spark version 2.0 or later. If Spark is configured to allow unauthenticated access, Quick Sight refuses the connection to the server. To use Quick Sight as a Spark client, you must configure LDAP authentication to work with Spark.

The Spark documentation contains information on how to set this up. To start, you need to configure it to enable front-end LDAP authentication over HTTPS. For general information on Spark, see the Apache spark website. For information specifically on Spark and security, see Spark security documentation.

To make sure that you have configured your server for Quick Sight access, follow the instructions in Network and database configuration requirements.