Configuring and deploying HBase
Before we start HBase in fully distributed mode, we will be setting up first Hadoop-2.2.0 in a distributed mode, and then on top of Hadoop cluster we will set up HBase because HBase stores data in HDFS.
Getting ready
The first step will be to create a directory at user/u/HBase B and download the TAR file from the location given later. The location can be local, mount points or in cloud environments; it can be block storage:
wget wget –b http://apache.mirrors.pair.com/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.2.0/hadoop-2.2.0.tar.gz
Tip
This –b option will download the tar file as a background process. The output will be piped to wget-log. You can tail this log file using tail -200f wget-log.
Untar it using the following commands:
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