Re: Reading Hbase data directly from HDFS

2011-03-11 Thread Stack
What Lars said. Or point him at http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableInputFormat.html Its form is probably familiar given his background (For more on hbase and mapreduce, point him at http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/package-summa

Re: Reading Hbase data directly from HDFS

2011-03-11 Thread Lars George
Hi, How is he supposed to read the data form HDFS? Reading the low level store files is difficult at the least and also does not take into account unflushed edits. You better provide him with the data on HDFS yourself using some sort of export or have him brush up on his API skillz. You coul

Reading Hbase data directly from HDFS

2011-03-11 Thread Barney Frank
I am working with a partner who knows very little about Hbase, but has lots of experience reading data from Hadoop/HDFS. He has existing connectors to Hadoop so should I recommend that he use those to extract the HBASE data into his existing data store? (He would only be reading data. I assume w