ZK is essential to get hbase going.. Dont think there's a way to avoid that.
However, writing unit tests for your code might be a good idea.. See the existing test cases to get an idea of how that can be done. Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.g...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > Is there a way to off turn zookeeper? I know this might not be a good > idea, but I would just like to test some > code that uses Hbase and don't want to deal with setting up and > running Hbase (someone else's problem) > > I'm getting > WARN zookeeper.ZooKeeperWrapper: Failed to create /hbase -- check > quorum servers, currently=X:2181 > org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$ConnectionLossException: > KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss for /hbase > > I have two machines, X,Y, X is master, and both X,Y are regions. X > runs a zookeeper. Both have 32GB ram. > > Much thanks > Saptarshi >