We learned about HBase in Chapter 3, Hadoop Ecosystem. We will now set up the HBase application in the Hadoop cluster that we already set up in Chapter 2, Big Data Environment Setup. If you have missed any of these, please revisit these chapters to get up to speed. We will now proceed with the installation of HBase.
HBase
Installation
In this first step, we will download the HBase application. At the time of writing, the current stable version of HBase is 1.4.3, and version 2.0 is in the beta 2 stage. We will be using the stable release to avoid encountering any bug or unknown failures. To learn more about different HBase releases, please visit https://hbase.apache.org/. We will now download HBase by executing the following...