HBase does require zookeeper. However you can have hbase manage zookeeper for you or you could
manage zookeeper yourself. For the size of your cluster (small) I would just let hbase manage
zookeeper. If I'm not mistaken the standard start up scripts that come with apache hbase will start
up zookeeper by default.
~Jeff
On 11/30/2010 9:14 AM, Joseph Coleman wrote:
Please forgive me as I am new to the Hadoop world and am working to understand
it before we do a large scale deployment. I currently have 3 test servers up
and running Hadoop 0.20.2 clustered together with Map reduce running and HDFS.
I am looking to setup HBASE on these 3 servers as well to get comfortable with
the whole setup process and my question is do I need to setup Zookeeper first
or can I just setup HBASE and then addon Zookeeper. Or am I missunderstanding
HBASE and do not require Zookeeper? Thanks in advance and if anyone has a good
site to reference for Cluster setups of HBASE that would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
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Jeff Whiting
Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer
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