Preface

This book will provide a top-down approach to learning HBase, which will be useful for both novices and experts. You will start learning configuration, code to maintenance, and troubleshooting—a kind of all-in-one HBase knowledge bank. This will be a step-by-step guide, which will help you work on HBase. The book will include day-to-day activities using HBase administration, and the implementation of Hadoop, plus HBase cluster setup from ground approach. The book will cover a complete list of use cases and explanations to implement HBase as an effective Big Data tool. It will also help you understand the layout and structure of HBase. There are lots of books available on the market on HBase, but they lack something in them; some of them focuses more on configuration and some on coding, but this book will provide a kind of start-to-end approach, which will be useful for a person with zero knowledge in HBase to the person proficient in HBase. This book is a complete guide to HBase administration and development with real-time scenarios and an operation guide.

This book will provide an understanding of what HBase is like, where it came from, who all are involved, why should we consider using it, why people are using it, when to use it, and how to use it. This book will give overall information about the HBase ecosystem. It's more like an HBase-confusion-buster book, a book to read and implement in real life. The book has in-depth theory and practical examples on HBase features. This theoretical and practical approach clears doubts on Hadoop and HBase. It provides complete guidance on configuration/management/troubleshooting of HBase clusters and their operations. The book is targeted at administration and development aspects of HBase; administration with troubleshooting, setup, and development with client and server APIs. This book also enables you to design schema, code in Java, and write shell scripts to work with HBase.