The interface to pull JSON objects out of HBase will not be the same as Mongo DB.
Meaning that you can store JSON objects in HBase. ( See Avro, or Wibidata's Kiji for example) But the infrastructure to query and interact with HBase is going to be different than with MongoDB. HTH -Mike On Jan 16, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>
