Chapter 6. HBase Cluster Maintenance and Troubleshooting

We have already learned about setting up the Hadoop and HBase clusters. Now, we will learn the aspects we need to consider to maintain the cluster and keep it up and running. This chapter will help readers make their HBase cluster more reliable by making it high available.

In this chapter, we will concentrate on the operational part of HBase. We will discuss the following topics:

  • Introduction to the HBase administration
  • HBase shell
  • Different administration tools for HBase
  • Using Java in HBase shell for various tweaks
  • HBase and shell scripting for HBase
  • Connecting hive with HBase to run Hive Query Language (HQL) queries from hive
  • Implementing securities in HBase
  • Frequently occurring errors and their ...

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