On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is an easy way to serialize hbase data so I can > store it on a Unix filesystem. Since the data is unstructured I was > thinking of creating a XML file which would represent it for each key and > value. Any thoughts or ideas about this? >
Use hadoop sequencefiles? See http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.html St.Ack