HBase

Apache HBase is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.

Use Apache HBase™ when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data by Chang et al. Just as Bigtable leverages the distributed data storage provided by the Google File System, Apache HBase provides Bigtable-like capabilities on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

• Web site http://hbase.apache.org/
• Book http://hbase.apache.org/book.html
• Refcard http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/hbase

Getting Started

http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart

Set the configuration file hbase-site.xml

More about HBase configuration file.

Set the JAVA_HOME

On MacOS X

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`

Installation

Download the latest version of the binary :

export $HBASE_VERSION=1.1.0.1
tar xf hbase-$HBASE_VERSION.tgz
mv hbase-$VERSION hbase
cd hbase

Launch the CLI

bin/start-hbase.sh