- Download HBase binary version 0.98.24 from the following URL using the command:
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/hbase/0.98.24/hbase-0.98.24-hadoop2-bin.tar.gz
At the time of authoring this book, the stable version of HBase was 1.2.4, but we were forced to fallback to 0.98.x vesion of HBase due to compatibility issues of Sqoop 1 with newer versions of HBase.
- Extract the above binary with tar command as shown below, from the directory where you would want to extract it, let us refer to it as ${HBASE_HOME}:
tar -zxvf downloads/hbase-0.98.24-hadoop2-bin.tar.gz
- Set an environment variable HBASE_HOME pointing to the directory where the files have been extracted with following command ...