HBase Study 1

resources: HBase in Action, Nick Dimiduk & Amandep Khurana

1. Storing data

HTablePool pool = new HTablePool(); //create a pool to connect tables

HTableInterface usersTable = pool.getTable("users"); //get a connection with table "users"

Put p = new Put(Bytes.toBytes("TheRealMT")); //create a rowkey, did not put this record into HBase yet

p.add(Bytes.toBytes("ïnfo"), //info is a column family

    Bytes.toBytes("password"),//password is a column qualifier(is also called column or qual)

    Bytes.toBytes("abc123"));//abc123 is the value of a cell

usersTable.put(p); //put this record into a table

usersTable.close();//close the connection with table "üser"

2. Under the hood