1、通过hbase shell命令操作:
describe ‘tablename’
显示emp表的描述,输入命令:describe ‘emp’,结果如下:
2、使用thrift API接口显示表的信息,代码如下:
# coding=utf-8
from thrift.transport.TSocket import TSocket
from thrift.transport.TTransport import TBufferedTransport
from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol
from hbase import Hbase
# 主机地址及端口号,端口号默认为9090
host = 'localhost'
port = 9090
# 初始化链接
transport = TBufferedTransport(TSocket(host, port))
transport.open()
protocol = TBinaryProtocol.TBinaryProtocol(transport)
client = Hbase.Client(protocol)
# 显示表列组的描述
print client.getColumnDescriptors('empbypy')
transport.close()
运行结果如下: