Thanks for the response. Can you give me some use cases of hbase and hdfs only? I am really hesitant to implement MR because for batch jobs we already use torque.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Doug Meil <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi there- > > I think you might want to start with the Hbase book, and specifically this > entry... > > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#faq.sql > > ... and then this one... > > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel > > .. then this one. > > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#mapreduce > > MapReduce is not required with Hbase, but it is extremely useful. > > > > On 7/12/11 6:06 AM, "Rita" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I have a dataset which is several terabytes in size. I would like to query > >this data using hbase (sql). Would I need to setup mapreduce to use hbase? > >Currently the data is stored in hdfs and I am using `hdfs -cat ` to get > >the > >data and pipe it into stdin. > > > > > > > >-- > >--- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- > > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
