Chapter 9. HBase Administration
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Setting up single node HBase cluster
- Setting up multi-node HBase cluster
- Inserting data into HBase
- Integration with Hive
- HBase administration commands
- HBase backup and restore
- Tuning HBase
- HBase upgrade
- Migrating data from MySQL to HBase using Sqoop
Introduction
Apache HBase is a non-relational distributed, scalable key-value data store. It provides random read/write, real-time access to HDFS.
In this chapter, we will configure the various modes of the HBase cluster. In simple terms, it is a Hadoop database based on column families with massive scale. The important thing to note is that having a column family does not make it column oriented or NoSQL. There is a common misconception, ...
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