Accessing MapR-DB Binary Tables Using HBase APIs
This section discusses how to access MapR-DB binary tables via HBase APIs, HBase Shell, and MapReduce applications.
MapR has extended the HBase component to handle access to MapR-DB binary tables. MapR-DB binary tables do not support low-level HBase API calls that are used to manipulate the state of an Apache HBase cluster.
See Creating Java Apps - Binary Tables for a full list of supported HBase Java APIs.
See HBase Shell for MapR-DB for a full list of supported commands in the HBase shell.
To enable the HBase API and hbase shell
access, install the
mapr-hbase
package on every node in the cluster. The HBase component of
the MapR distribution for Hadoop is typically installed
under/opt/mapr/hbase
. Install the mapr-hbase
package
that provides the version that corresponds with the current MEP and MapR version you are
running.
See the Installing MapR and/or MapR Ecosystem Components for information about MapR installation procedures.