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HBase High Performance Cookbook

By : Ruchir Choudhry
Book Image

HBase High Performance Cookbook

By: Ruchir Choudhry

Overview of this book

Apache HBase is a non-relational NoSQL database management system that runs on top of HDFS. It is an open source, disturbed, versioned, column-oriented store and is written in Java to provide random real-time access to big Data. We’ll start off by ensuring you have a solid understanding the basics of HBase, followed by giving you a thorough explanation of architecting a HBase cluster as per our project specifications. Next, we will explore the scalable structure of tables and we will be able to communicate with the HBase client. After this, we’ll show you the intricacies of MapReduce and the art of performance tuning with HBase. Following this, we’ll explain the concepts pertaining to scaling with HBase. Finally, you will get an understanding of how to integrate HBase with other tools such as ElasticSearch. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to exploit HBase for boost system performance.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
HBase High Performance Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
Large-Scale MapReduce
Index

Configuring Hbase for the Cloud


Before we start, let's take a quick look at the supported versions and the prerequisites you need to move ahead.

The list of supported versions is as below:

Hbase Version

AMI Versions

AWS CLI configuration parameters

Hbase Version details

0.94.18

3.1.0 and later

--ami-version 3.1

--ami-version 3.2

--ami-version 3.3

--applications Name=Hbase

Bug fixes

0.94

3.0-3.0.4

--ami-version 3.0

--applications Name=Hbase

 

0.92

2.2 and later

--ami-version 2.2 or later

--applications Name=HBase

 

Now let's look at the prerequisites:

  • At least two instances (Optional): The cluster's master node runs the HBase master server and Zookeeper, and slave nodes run the HBase region servers.

    For optimum performance and production systems, HBase clusters should run on at least two EC2 instances, but you can run HBase on a single node for evaluation purposes.

  • Long-running clusters: HBase only runs on long-running clusters. By default, the CLI and Amazon EMR console create...