In this chapter, we learned the steps to install and configure all prerequisites of Hadoop and HBase, Hadoop distributions, and HBase. We also learned how to install, configure, and test a cluster on Windows using Cygwin. We learned about various Apache/Cloudera Hadoop and HBase distributions available and started the daemon processes of Hadoop/HBase.
In the next chapter, we will see the basic operations that we can perform with the Hadoop HBase cluster using a command line, and we will then look into the optimizing and other important parameters in different files.