3 Review(s)

HBase: The Definitive Guide is the complete reference manual, by Lars George, for mastering Apache HBase. Summary Of The Book HBase is Apache’s Java-based, open source, non-relational database inspired by Google's BigTable, which facilitates the storage of large amounts of data in a fault-tolerant manner. In HBase: The Definitive Guide, Lars George details how Apache HBase can be used to suit your requirements of storing a seemingly endless amount of scalable data. The book is successful in providing pertinent and comprehensive information on the database, whether the objective is to evaluate this system or to implement it. HBase: The Definitive Guide includes an introduction to HBase, details on installation, Client API features, basic, advanced, and administrative features, details of available clients, MapReduce integration, and information on the architecture of the database. It also contains clear explanations on advanced usage, cluster monitoring, and cluster administration. The book provides an understanding of how HDFS, Hadoop’s distributed and replicated file-system works, HBase's primary storage system, and and describes HBase’s storage format, write-ahead log, and background processes. It also provides details on how HBase clients may be developed in several programming languages (including Java and Ruby), how large datasets can be distributed across a cluster of commodity servers, and how HBase may be integrated easily with other aspects of the Apache Hadoop Project, such as integrating with Hadoop's MapReduce framework for processing enormously parallelized data. The book also teaches readers on tuning clusters, importing bulk data, and copying tables. The increase in HBase implementation has caused intrigue and questions. Lars George’s HBase: The Definitive Guide is able to provide suitable and satisfactory answers to questions that IT professionals may have about this database. About Lars George Lars George is an author and HBase committer. His involvement with HBase began in 2007. Apart from starting the Munich OpenHUG meetings, he has addressed many Hadoop User Group meetings and conferences, including the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels. George has been a full HBase committer since 2009 and is currently working for Cloudera, where he provides technical support, consulting services, and training support in Hadoop and HBase, in Europe.