Unable to follow H3 Quickstart

[Baldur]

Hello,
I'm following H3 quickstart(Databricks SQL) tutorial because I want to do point-in-polygon queries on 21k polygons and 95B points. The volume is pushing me towards using H3. In the tutorial, they use geopandas.

According to H3 geospatial functions, we need a photon enabled cluster. 

The ML clusters cannot have photon enabled, but so far I have not been able to install geopandas on our regular cluster like they do in the quickstart, I keep getting this error: 

%pip install geopandas fsspec --quiet

Note: you may need to restart the kernel using dbutils.library.restartPython() to use updated packages.
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [3 lines of output]
      <string>:86: DeprecationWarning: The 'warn' function is deprecated, use 'warning' instead
      WARNING:root:Failed to get options via gdal-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'
      CRITICAL:root:A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable.
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
CalledProcessError: Command 'pip --disable-pip-version-check install geopandas fsspec --quiet' returned non-zero exit status 1.

Can I not use H3 and Geopandas? To me the choice seems to either use a ML cluster without photon or use a regular cluster with photon but unable to install geopandas used in the Quickstart guide.

Below is the config for the cluster that fails to install geopandas:

[mjohns]

Hi @Baldur, 

There is no inherent limitation of installing python libraries on a photon cluster. I see that you have selected DBR 13.3. Can you provide a little more on the cluster configuration, namely is it single user or shared access? And is your workspace configured to use Unity Catalog (might become relevant, not sure)? I just ran: 

%pip install geopandas fsspec

 with no issue on a single user (vs shared access) photon dbr cluster in a workspace with Unity Catalog. Can you attempt again with a single user + photon dbr cluster? If you say that is what you have already tried, then I think you would want to dig in further on any restrictions your company is placing on the environment (beyond Databricks defaults).

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[Baldur]

Hi @mjohns thanks for the reply.

To your questions:

1. The cluster that fails is shared access
2. Our workspace does have Unity Catalog

Good idea, I attempted this again, creating a Single user - 13.3 LTS cluster with Photon Acceleration enabled and I was able to install Geopandas. This does sound like a config issue on that particular cluster. I'm gonna pursue that.

Thank you for the guidance!

[siddhathPanchal]

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