On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Joe Pallas <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you manage an HBase deployment without the HBase shell? > > Suppose, hypothetically, that there was a reason (*cough* lawyers *cough*) > that you couldn’t use JRuby and, hence, the HBase shell. I think the shell > is pretty handy although I’m not sure it is essential, but I wonder what > others think? > > Worst case, all that functionality could be replaced with moderately tedious > Java code, I suppose. >
Yes. Some of what you get in shell can be gotten from UI (You can do split regions in UI for example) but otherwise, you'll have to write a bit of code Joe. If you embark on new shell writing project, let us know (smile). St.Ack
