August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
There are a bunch of HBase Shell commands for managing the cluster. These commands belong to the tool's group.
Warning
Many of these commands are for advanced users only, as their misuse can cause unexpected damages to an HBase installation.
The tool's group commands provide an interface to manage HBase regions manually. Their features include:
Although HBase does all these operations automatically, by default, there are situations wherein you may want to balance your region server's load manually. This is especially true when the default, balancing algorithm does not work well for your data access pattern.
In this recipe, ...