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Published inAug 2012
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Yifeng Jiang
Yifeng Jiang
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Yifeng Jiang

Yifeng Jiang is a Hadoop and HBase Administrator and Developer at Rakutenthe largest e-commerce company in Japan. After graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Information Management Systems, he started his career as a professional software engineer, focusing on Java development. In 2008, he started looking over the Hadoop project. In 2009, he led the development of his previous company's display advertisement data infrastructure using Hadoop and Hive. In 2010, he joined his current employer, where he designed and implemented the Hadoop- and HBase-based, large-scale item ranking system. He is also one of the members of the Hadoop team in the company, which operates several Hadoop/HBase clusters
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Exporting an HBase table to dump files on HDFS


The HBase export utility dumps the contents of a table to the same HDFS cluster. The dump file is in a Hadoop sequence file format. Exporting data to Hadoop sequence files has merits for data backup, because the Hadoop sequence file format supports several compression types and algorithms. With it we can choose the best compression options to fit our environment.

Like the copytable utility we mentioned in the previous recipe, export is configurable with a start and an end timestamp, so that only the data within a specific time frame will be dumped. This feature enables export to incrementally export an HBase table to HDFS.

HBase export is also a live backup option. As the cluster is running, there is a risk that edits could be missed during the export process. In this recipe, we will describe how to use the export utility to export a table to HDFS on the same cluster. We will introduce the import utility in the next recipe, which is used to...

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Published in: Aug 2012Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849517140

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Yifeng Jiang

Yifeng Jiang is a Hadoop and HBase Administrator and Developer at Rakutenthe largest e-commerce company in Japan. After graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Information Management Systems, he started his career as a professional software engineer, focusing on Java development. In 2008, he started looking over the Hadoop project. In 2009, he led the development of his previous company's display advertisement data infrastructure using Hadoop and Hive. In 2010, he joined his current employer, where he designed and implemented the Hadoop- and HBase-based, large-scale item ranking system. He is also one of the members of the Hadoop team in the company, which operates several Hadoop/HBase clusters
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