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Mastering Hadoop 3
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Mastering Hadoop 3

by Timothy Wong, Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
544 pages
14h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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HBase architecture and its concept

Apache HBase is a distributed column storage database that also follows the master/slave architecture. Below is a picture representation of HBase architecture and its components:

The HBase architecture has four major components, which are as follows:

  • HMaster: HMaster is a process that is responsible for assigning region to region servers in the Hadoop cluster for load balancing. HMaster is responsible for monitoring all Region Server instances in the HBase cluster, and acts as the interface for all metadata changes. The master typically runs on Namenode in a distributed system. Now the question is, what ...
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ISBN: 9781788620444