hbase Getting started with hbase Installing HBase in Standalone

Example

HBase Standalone is a mode which allow you to get rid of HDFS and to test HBase before deploying in a cluster, It is not production oriented.

Installing HBase in standalone is extremely simple. First you have to download the HBase archive named hbase-X.X.X-bin.tar.gz available on one of the apache mirrors.

Once you have done this, execute this shell command

tar xzvf hbase-X.X.X-bin.tar.gz

It will export the archive in your directory, you can put it wherever you want.

Now, go to the HBase directory you have exported and edit the file conf/hbase-env.sh

cd hbase-X.X.X
vi -o conf/hbase-env.xml

In this file, uncomment the line and change the path of JAVA_HOME

JAVA_HOME=/usr    #The directory must contain bin/java

Almost there ! now edit the file conf/hbase-sitexml and put the folowing lines

<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
    <value>file:///home/user/hbase</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
    <value>/home/user/zookeeper</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

You can put those directories wherever you want to, just be sure to remember it if you want to check logs etc.

Your HBase is now ready to run ! Just execute the command

bin/start-hbase.sh

and if you want to stop HBase

bin/stop-hbase.sh

Now your HBase is launched on your localhost and you can access it (using the Java API or the HBase shell). To run HBase shell, use

bin/hbase shell

Have fun using HBase !