HBase Administration Cookbook

391 Pages·2012·4.63 MB·English

by  Yifeng Jiang

HBase Administration Cookbook
HBase Administration Cookbook
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Yifeng Jiang
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Masatake Iwasaki
Tatsuya Kawano
Michael Morello
Shinichi Yamashita
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About the Author
Yifeng Jiang is a Hadoop and HBase Administrator and Developer
at Rakuten—the 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.
Acknowledgement
Little did I know, when I was first asked by Packt Publishing whether
I would be interested in writing a book about HBase administration
on September 2011, how much work and stress (but also a lot of fun)
it was going to be.
Now that the book is finally complete, I would like to thank those
people without whom it would have been impossible to get done.
First, I would like to thank the HBase developers for giving us such a
great piece of software. Thanks to all of the people on the mailing list
providing good answers to my many questions, and all the people
working on tickets and documents.
I would also like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for contacting
me to get started with the writing of this book, and providing support,
guidance, and feedback.
Many thanks to Rakuten, my employer, who provided me with the
environment to work on HBase and the chance to write this book.
Thank you to Michael Stack for helping me with a quick review of the
book.
Thank you to the book's reviewers—Michael Morello, Tatsuya
Kawano, Kenichiro Hamano, Shinichi Yamashita, and Masatake
Iwasaki.
To Yotaro Kagawa: Thank you for supporting me and my family from
the very start and ever since.
To Xinping and Lingyin: Thank you for your support and all your
patience—I love you!
About the Reviewers
Masatake Iwasaki is a Software Engineer at NTT DATA
CORPORATION, providing technical consultation for open source
softwares such as Hadoop, HBase, and PostgreSQL.
Tatsuya Kawano is an HBase contributor and evangelist in Japan.
He has been helping the Japanese Hadoop and HBase community
to grow since 2010.
He is currently working for Gemini Mobile Technologies as a
Research & Development software engineer. He is also developing
Cloudian, a fully S3 API-complaint cloud storage platform, and Hibari
DB, an open source, distributed, key-value store.
He has co-authored a Japanese book named "Basic Knowledge of
NOSQL" in 2012, which introduces 16 NoSQL products, such as
HBase, Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB, and Neo4j to novice readers.
He has studied graphic design in New York, in the late 1990s. He
loves playing with 3D computer graphics as much as he loves
developing high-availability, scalable, storage systems.
Michael Morello holds a Masters degree in Distributed Computing
and Artificial Intelligence. He is a Senior Java/JEE Developer with a
strong Unix and Linux background. His areas of research are mostly
related to large-scale systems and emerging technologies dedicated
to solving scalability, performance, and high availability issues.
I would like to thank my wife and my little angel for their love
and support.
Shinichi Yamashita is a Chief Engineer at the OSS Professional
Service unit in NTT DATA Corporation, in Japan. He has more than 7
years of experience in software and middleware (Apache, Tomcat,
PostgreSQL, Hadoop eco system) engineering.
Shinicha has written a few books on Hadoop in Japan.
I would like to thank my colleagues.
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