I received a number of very helpful responses to this e-mail. It turns out my problems are probably related to a newly discovered bug, HADOOP-2731.
Thanks, - Marc On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:30 -0500, Marc Harris wrote: > Firstly, if it is inappropriate to post this here, please accept my > apologies and let me know. > > On behalf of my company, I am evaluating Hbase for use with a > development project. The description of the capabilities seems > promising, but I have been unable to set up a working Hbase environment > and load data into it. If there are any "Hbase experts" reading this > list who are interested in a short paid consulting engagement, please > contact me off-list. > > Objectives are to successfully do the following: > 1) Set up an hbase cluster of 1 or 2 machines > 2) Loading our data into the system (without it crashing!) > 3) Run some simple Map-Reduce jobs that "transform" that data. > > I am just a developer so I can't talk about financial terms etc., so if > you are interested I will ask the "business people" at my company to > contact you. > > Thanks, > - Marc Harris >
