You can do that, approach might vary though, depending upon the scenario. You just have to think well about your schema in order to make sure that it fits into your put and get requirements.
I have not worked personally on JSON+Hbase combo, so could not give any direct suggestion at the moment. But we have a lot of folks here on the list who have experience on such things. Let us hope they come across with this thread. I have a few things in mind which I would like to share with you though. Try not to store too large JSON files. You might need to consider making the column family compressed. I would first serialize the JSON into Bytes and then write to Hbase cells and while pulling the data, deserialize it back in the same layer. You may find this thread<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.hadoop.hbase.user/15261> useful. HTH Warm Regards, Tariq https://mtariq.jux.com/ cloudfront.blogspot.com On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Panshul Whisper <ouchwhis...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Tariq, > > Thank you for the reply. > > My concern is that I have been working with MongoDB, but now I am switching > over to Hadoop and I want to use HBase for certain reasons. I was wondering > if I can store Json files in Hbase in a way that I can query the Json files > in Hbase as I can in Mongodb. Such as I can directly say Mongodb to get me > all the objects having timestamp value of xxx date where timestamp is a > field in Json objects stored in Mongodb. Can I perform similar operations > on Hbase or does it have another approach for doing similar operations. > I do not have much knowledge on Hbase yet. I am beginning to learn it, but > I just want to be sure i am investing my time in the right direction. > > Thank you so much for the help, > > Regards, > Panshul. > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Panshul, > > > > Hbase and MongoDB are built to serve different purposes. You > can't > > replace one with the other. They have different strengths and weaknesses. > > So, if you are using Hbase for something, think well before switching to > > MongoDB or vice verca. > > > > Coming back to the actual question, you can store anything which can be > > converted into a sequence of bytes into Hbase and query it. Could you > > please elaborate your problem a bit?It will help us to answer your > question > > in a better manner. > > > > Warm Regards, > > Tariq > > https://mtariq.jux.com/ > > cloudfront.blogspot.com > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Panshul Whisper <ouchwhis...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is it possible to use hbase to query json documents in a same way as we > > can > > > do with Mongodb > > > > > > Suggestions please. > > > If we can then a small example as how.. not the query but the process > > > flow.. > > > Thanku so much > > > Regards, > > > Panshul. > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Ouch Whisper > 010101010101 >
