RESTful services and Thrift services interface
These are the inbuilt interfaces provided by HBase so that clients can communicate using RESTful and Thrift calls.
REST service interfaces
Now, let's discuss the RESTful service and Thrift that HBase provides in order to contact HBase besides Java coding. Stargate is the server that provides RESTful service interface through Java package, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest. It internally runs an embedded Jetty servlet container to handle the request.
We can start it as follows:
hbase rest start -p <port to use>
The preceding command starts REStful services in the foreground. Alternatively, you can start it and send it to the background:
bin/hbase-daemon.sh start rest -p <port to use>
REStful services can be ...
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