Using the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON REST API

Starting in the EEP 5.0 release, you can use a REST API to access HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON tables. The REST API allows you to use HTTP calls to perform basic operations on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON tables.

The API supports the following operations:

  • Create and delete HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON tables
  • Insert, update, and delete documents from a table
  • Retrieve documents while specifying filter conditions and projections

The REST API has the following characteristics:

  • Operations are stateless
  • Operations are synchronous
  • Request responses are not buffered
  • Web connections are secure when connecting to secure MapR clusters
  • Supports the following methods of authentication:
  • Supports user impersonation - All data access calls are run on behalf of the authenticated user
  • Returns HTTP error codes and detailed error responses in the response message body

When connecting to a MapR cluster, you must use HTTPS in your requests.

With basic authentication, you pass a username and password in your Web client. With token based authentication, you generate a token and then pass the token in the header of subsequent API requests.

The MapR Data Access Gateway is the service that supports this web API. You should configure multiple instances of this service across your MapR cluster to distribute request processing. To achieve load balancing, you must install an external load balancer. Using token based authentication and an external load balancer, you can achieve high availability and failover. Because the REST API is stateless, you do not have to regenerate your authentication token when different service instances process your API request. This applies even in the event of failovers and service restart. You must regenerate your token when it expires.

The API does not support the following features:

  • HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON administrative commands, except the commands noted earlier
  • Read Your Own Writes

To modify properties that the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database JSON REST API uses, see Application Properties.