See the 'Getting Started' documentation:
http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.19.3/api/overview-summary.html#overview_description
It could be better on stuff like creating a table but basically, after
firing up the shell -- see above for how -- type 'help' and study the
command, it has examples for doing stuff like creating tables, etc. For
example, from the help:
create Create table; pass table name, a dictionary of specifications per
column family, and optionally a dictionary of table
configuration.
Dictionaries are described below in the GENERAL NOTES section.
Examples:
hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 5}
hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1'}, {NAME => 'f2'}, {NAME =>
'f3'}
hbase> # The above in shorthand would be the following:
hbase> create 't1', 'f1', 'f2', 'f3'
hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 1, TTL => 2592000,
\
BLOCKCACHE => true}
For what a column family is, etc., see the bigtable paper or the hbase
architecture document on the wiki.
St.Ack
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Muhammad Mudassar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just started to work with hbase can any body here tell me how to add
> a table to the hbase.
>
>
> thanks
>
> Muhammad Mudassar
>
