Yeah the shell is really just a wrapper around HTable and HBaseAdmin, both the REST and Thrift servers also do those functions (but they are also missing a few).
J-D 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. > > Thanks. > joe > >
