Performing Hbase operations in Java

Hbase provides a Java client with which we can perform operations similar to those performed through the command line.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as the latest version of Hbase installed on it.

How to do it

To get started, we first need to create a maven project and add the Hbase client dependency:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
        <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.1.1</version>
    </dependency>

Now, we write a Java class, which uses APIs from the Hbase client to perform various operations:

package com.demo.hbase.hbase.client;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
import...