I suspect you meant to email the hbase user list, not the pig list?
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:02 AM, yonghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I read the blog > http://www.larsgeorge.com/2009/10/hbase-architecture-101-storage.html and > tried to understand the architecture of the HBase. There is one thing that > makes me confusing. If I understand right, the client must connect the > Zookeeper cluster to get the metadata of particular table information and > then use this information to retrieve the table. > My question is the node which hosts the ".META. table" and "-ROOT- region" > is the node which belongs to HBase cluster or Zookeeper cluster? If they > belongs to the Zookeeper cluster, what is the functionality of the Master > node in the HBase cluster, only assigning the work node when starting the > HBase? In my point of view, the Master node will maintain the ".META. > table" > and "-ROOT- region" information. > > Thanks! > > Yong >
