@ados1984, HDFS is a file system and HBase is a data store on top of that. You cannot create tables (in the conventional meaning of the word table in database/store) directly on HDFS without HBase.
Regards, Shahab On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Geoffry Roberts <threadedb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Based on what you have said, it sounds as if you want to append records to > a file(s) in hdfs. I was able to do this with WebHDFS and with the hadoop > client. But you asked about architecture. Would a POST to a url satisfy > you as to architecture? If so setup WebHDFS as POST to it. > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:00 PM, ados1...@gmail.com <ados1...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello Team, >> >> I am doing POC in Hadoop and want to understand what is recommended >> architecture to injest data from different data stream like web log, >> portal, mobile, pos system into Hadoop system? Also what are the use cases >> where we need to have hbase on top of HDFS? Can't we only have hdfs and no >> hbase and if we have only hdfs can we create tables directly on hdfs which >> impala can query on? >> >> Kindly advise !!! >> Regards, Apurva >> > > > > -- > There are ways and there are ways, > > Geoffry Roberts >
