Fwd: Running HBase on Windows

2008-05-11 Thread Naama Kraus
Hi, For the meanwhile I used hbase-site.xml to override hbase.rootdir in which I don't use.home rather - hbase.rootdir file:///tmp/hbase The directory shared by region servers. Should be fully-qualified to include the filesystem to use. This solved my problem. I'd

Running HBase on Windows

2008-05-11 Thread Naama Kraus
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to run HBase on Windows. I tried to setup HBase on a Windows machine (for development purposes). I have Cygwin installed and ssh/sshd as well. I am trying to set up HBase in a local mode, i.e. use the localfile system. I use HBase 0.1.1. When I run start-hbase

Re: Does HBase support single-row transaction?

2008-05-11 Thread Bryan Duxbury
Currently, it's not on our list of things to do. There are a number of reasons why it would be better to use Zookeeper here than to try and build it into HBase. That said, I think you could get everything you need if you tried Zookeeper, using that to acquire locks on the row you need a t

Re: Scanner

2008-05-11 Thread Bryan Duxbury
The way to do parallel scanning is with a map/reduce job and TableInputFormat. This does all the work of parallelizing the scan, as well as whatever work you were doing. -Bryan On May 10, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Daniel Leffel wrote: Is there a parallel scanner (I didn't see it in the documents)? H