Hi there- I think you might want to start with the Hbase book, and specifically this entry...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#faq.sql ... and then this one... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel .. then this one. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#mapreduce MapReduce is not required with Hbase, but it is extremely useful. On 7/12/11 6:06 AM, "Rita" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > > >I have a dataset which is several terabytes in size. I would like to query >this data using hbase (sql). Would I need to setup mapreduce to use hbase? >Currently the data is stored in hdfs and I am using `hdfs -cat ` to get >the >data and pipe it into stdin. > > > >-- >--- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
