HBase in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introducing HBase

Figure 1.1. Providing web-search results using Bigtable, simplified. The crawlers—applications collecting web pages—store their data in Bigtable. A MapReduce process scans the table to produce the search index. Search results are queried from Bigtable to display to the user.

Figure 1.2. The HBase Master status page. From this interface, you can get a general sense of the health of your installation. It also allows you to explore the distribution of data and perform basic administrative tasks, but most administration isn’t done through this interface. You’ll learn more about HBase operations in chapter 10.

Chapter 2. Getting started

Figure 2.1. HBase write path. Every write to HBase requires confirmation ...