Hey, Here are some answers: 1. The directory setting is: <name>hbase.rootdir</name> <value>file:///tmp/hbase-${user.name}/hbase</value> <description>The directory shared by region servers. Should be fully-qualified to include the filesystem to use. E.g: hdfs://NAMENODE_SERVER:PORT/HBASE_ROOTDIR </description>
adjust that in your hbase-site.xml as you wish. I have mine set to: hdfs://master:9000/hbase It is conceivable to run HBase on a shared-directory system like NFS, but I haven't heard of anyone doing that. 2. There is a thrift API, which you can hook up any thrift-client to. This includes perl. 3. The docs online, try irc, there are a number of things there. 4. What kind of GUI would you like? You could write your own web one? There is the bin/hbase shell which gives admin access to the system - do you need more than that? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Jae Joo <jaejo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new for HBase and have a couple of questions. > 1. I have installed HBase and load a couple of millions of data. The file > system for HBase is in /tmp diectory. > How can I change the directory for data files? > 2. Is there any Perl based API available? > 3. Is there any tutorial available? > 4. Does anyone know that for GUI based API is available? > > > Thanks, > > Jae Joo >