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HBase High Performance Cookbook
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HBase High Performance Cookbook

by Ruchir Choudhry
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. Configuring HBase

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Configuring and deploying HBase
  • Using the file system
  • Administering clusters
  • Managing clusters

Introduction

HBase is inspired by the Google big table architecture, and is fundamentally a non-relational, open source, and column-oriented distributed NoSQL. Written in Java, it is designed and developed by many engineers under the framework of Apache Software Foundation. Architecturally it sits on Apache Hadoop and runs by using Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its foundation.

It is a column-oriented database, empowered by a fault-tolerant distributed file structure known as HDFS. In addition to this, it also provides very advanced features, such as auto sharding, ...

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ISBN: 9781783983063