HBase has a "bytes-in/bytes-out" interface (see Put and Result). As long as you can convert the object to bytes and make sense of it later, you can put it in HBase -within reason, because there are practical size limitations.
-----Original Message----- From: rajat....@bt.com [mailto:rajat....@bt.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 1:41 PM To: hbase-...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: HBase Push Video or Image File Hi there, Just started off with HBase. So this could be a stupid question . But here it goes ... Can we insert any video file (e.g. .avi) or image file (e.g. .png) directly into HBase with any kind of query or through a Java code? Regards, Rajat. Cell: 9874400096 "A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?" - Ronald Reagan