Learning HBase

by Shashwat Shriparv

Learn the fundamentals of HBase administration and development with the help of real-time scenarios If you are an administrator or developer who wants to enter the world of Big Data and BigTables and would like to learn about HBase, this is the book for you. Apache HBase is a nonrelational NoSQL database management system that runs on top of HDFS. It is an open source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store. It facilitates the tech industry with random, real-time read/write access to your Big Data with the benefit of linear scalability on the fly. This book will take you through a series of core tasks in HBase. The introductory chapter will give you all the information you need about the HBase ecosystem. Furthermore, you'll learn how to configure, create, verify, and test clusters. The book also explores different parameters of Hadoop and HBase that need to be considered for optimization and a trouble-free operation of the cluster. It will focus more on HBase's data model, storage, and structure layout. You will also get to know the different options that can be used to speed up the operation and functioning of HBase. The book will also teach the users basic- and advance-level coding in Java for HBase. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to use HBase with large data sets and integrate them with Hadoop.

326 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2014

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[C.T. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book to get up an running with HBASE. HBASE is a bit of a beast and somewhat intimidating as . Other books that I looked at were dense and seemed to cover every nuance of M/R and the architecture and what I needed was something that would allow me to spin up a cluster and get my hands dirty right away. I was able to get a test cluster up and running within an hour or so on my VPS provider using this. The performance tuning section towards the end is also a great resource once you actually have a cluster that's in production. This is a great first read for anyone looking to get started but was put off by the density of the other books on the subject.

[Ganesh Rajan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book to know about the HBASE from the scratch and throws information about Hadoop eco system too. Informative for admins and developer you want to gets your hands dirty and get started, well described.

[Osman Homek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent guide for quick and precise learning. If you are interested in work with HBase and Hbase Admin, then this book will be good source of admin and development. I liked two chapters: Optimizing the Hbase / Hadoop Cluster and Hbase Cluster Maintenance and Troubleshooting.