Can you confirm that your HBase and your HDFS are on two different platforms? Otherwise I'd expect there is a more straight-forward way to do this than using Alteryx. Can you give me a bit more details about what you are doing -HDFS is a file management system and HBase is a noSQL database so when you say importing data - are we talking rendering the HDFS files into some columnar structure and then placing them in Hbase - if so - why Hbase?
My HBase knowledge is incredibly limited - but I do not believe there is a native ODBC (- and I cannot see how it would work with one really since it's basically designed to not be queryable) - so you'd need to use API calls. API calls would require the download tool - which would require being in canvas... again - limited HBase but my expectation is that this would be for a BigTable like use-case which would be terrabytes of data so both API calls and in-canvas are not where you want to be unless this is some on-prem server set up.
also - doesn't hbase store files in hdfs?
