HBase is not a relational database, so many things that are in a SQL
database dont exist.

eg:
- sequences
- secondary declarative keys
- joins
- advance query features such as order by, group by
- operators of any kind

Given conventions (eg: naming of index tables), it might be possible to
semi-automatedly convert data, but it might not efficiently take advantage
of HBase's unique schema-less design.

I suggest you have a look at the Google's bigtable paper, as it has the same
underlying model that HBase does.

Good luck!


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Brian Forney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to replicate a large dataset from a relational database into HBase
> for better throughput of MapReduce jobs. Has anyone had success replicating
> from a relational database (in my case SQL Server) to HBase?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

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