16.2. Using the Bigtable Data Store Programmatically

16.2.1. Creating a Data Store

An instance of a Bigtable data store can be obtained through the normal GeoTools discovery methods, assuming that the GeoMesa code is on the classpath. The Bigtable data store also requires that an hbase-site.xml be located on the classpath; the connection parameters for the Bigtable data store are obtained from this file. For more information, see Connecting to Cloud Bigtable.

Map<String, Serializable> parameters = new HashMap<>;
parameters.put("bigtable.catalog", "geomesa");
org.geotools.data.DataStore dataStore =
    org.geotools.data.DataStoreFinder.getDataStore(parameters);

16.2.2. Bigtable Data Store Parameters

The data store takes several parameters (required parameters are marked with *):

Parameter Type Description
bigtable.catalog * String The name of the GeoMesa catalog table (previously bigtable.table.name)
geomesa.query.audit Boolean Audit queries being run. Queries will be written to a log file
geomesa.query.timeout String The max time a query will be allowed to run before being killed. The timeout is specified as a duration, e.g. 1 minute or 60 seconds
geomesa.query.threads Integer The number of threads to use per query
geomesa.query.loose-bounding-box Boolean Use loose bounding boxes - queries will be faster but may return extraneous results
geomesa.stats.generate Boolean Toggle collection of statistics (currently not implemented)
geomesa.query.caching Boolean Toggle caching of results

More information on using GeoTools can be found in the GeoTools user guide.