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Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop
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Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop

by Manoj R Patil, V Naresh Kumar, Prashant Shindgikar
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
394 pages
10h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Difference between RDBMS table and column - oriented data store

We all know how data is stored in any RDBMS table. It looks like this:

ID

Column_1

Column_2

Column_3

Column_4

1

A

11

P

XX

2

B

12

Q

YY

3

C

13

R

ZZ

4

D

14

S

XX1

 

The column ID is used as a unique/primary key of the table to access data from other columns of the table. But in a column-oriented data store like HBase, the same table is divided into key and value and is stored like this:

Key Value
Row Column Column Value
1 Column_1 A
1 Column_2 11
1 Column_3 P
1 Column_4 XX
2 Column_1 B
2 Column_2 12
2 Column_3 Q
2 Column_4 YY
3 Column_1 C
3 Column_2 13
3 Column_3 R
3 Column_4 ZZ

In HBase, ...

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