Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "HBase can be stopped using its stop-hbase.sh script."

A block of code is set as follows:

nameserver 10.160.49.250 #private IP of ns
search hbase-admin-cookbook.com #domain name

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

MAJOR_COMPACTION_KEY = \x00
MAX_SEQ_ID_KEY = 96573
TIMERANGE = 1323026325955....1323026325955
hfile.AVG_KEY_LEN = 31
hfile.AVG_VALUE_LEN = 4
hfile.COMPARATOR = org.apache.hadoop.hbase.KeyValue$KeyComparator

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