Just for reference, there's this jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2811
J-D On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running the DataNode inside of an HBase process seems like this could > be a good option to enable? > > Specifically because it would reduce the number of processes on an > HBase instance. Eg, I think one of the barriers to adoption for HBase > in general is the multiple processes management part. Are there any > known issues with doing this? > > In addition to the DataNode, one could auto-specify which servers > should be running Zookeeper and start ZK inside of the HBase > process(es). >