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Hbase Essentials

Hbase Essentials

By : Garg
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Hbase Essentials

Hbase Essentials

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By: Garg

Overview of this book

This book is intended for developers and Big Data engineers who want to know all about HBase at a hands-on level. For in-depth understanding, it would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with HDFS and MapReduce programming concepts with no prior experience with HBase or similar technologies. This book is also for Big Data enthusiasts and database developers who have worked with other NoSQL databases and now want to explore HBase as another futuristic, scalable database solution in the Big Data space.
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Designing tables

In HBase, when modeling the schema for any table, a designer should also keep in mind the following, among other things:

  • The number of column families and which data goes to which column family
  • The maximum number of columns in each column family
  • The type of data to be stored in the column
  • The number of historical values that need to be maintained for each column
  • The structure of a rowkey

Once we have answers, certain practices are followed to ensure optimal table design. Some of the design practices are as follows:

  • Data for a given column family goes into a single store on HDFS. This store might consist of multiple HFiles, which eventually get converted to a single HFile using compaction techniques.
  • Columns in a column family are also stored together on the disk, and the columns with different access patterns should be kept in different column families.
  • If we design tables with fewer columns and many rows (a tall table), we might achieve O(1) operations but also compromise with...

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