Mapreduce isn't required. For your query, Hive would be a better fit. On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious, does hbase require mapreduce? Basically, I have several > terabytes of data and I would like to query it similar to sql fashion. > Was wondering if mapreduce was required. >