The import/export tools are mapreduce programs but you can also run them off Hadoop's local mode (default, when not configured), not needing Hadoop "setup" as a cluster. HBase ships a hadoop jar in its distribution by default, which should suffice.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Greg Pelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm investigating the import/export functionality in HBase, there's a lot > of hits on searches but every page I hit seems to assume that I have hadoop > installed as well as HBase (including the book, the definitive guide). Is > it really necessary for me to have Hadoop installed in order to use the > export tool? > > Cheers, > Greg -- Harsh J Customer Ops. Engineer, Cloudera
