HBase Installation on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

                                       

              Step 1 - Download hbase using below command or link 

          hduser@ubuntu:~$wget http://mirror.reverse.net/pub/apache/hbase/stable/

          hbase-0.94.15.tar.gz

                                                                                           or

                                                      Download the tarbal from here

          Step 2 - Untar the downloaded file and Rename it

          
          hduser@ubuntu:~$tar -xvzf hbase-0.94.15.tar.gz

          hduser@ubuntu:~$mv hbase-0.94.15.tar.gz hbase

          Step 3 - Move the extracted folder in /opt/hbase location

          hduser@ubuntu:~$sudo mv hbase  /opt/

          Step 4 - Add permissions

          hduser@ubuntu:~$sudo chown -R hduser:hadoop hbase

          Step 5 - Set the path in bash environment

          hduser@ubuntu:~$sudo vim ~ /.bashrc

          Add the following text into the ~/.bashrc file

          export HBASE_HOME=/opt/hbase

          export PATH=$PATH:$HBASE_HOME/bin

          Step 6 - Configure hbase environment settings

          hduser@ubuntu:/opt/hbase/hbase-0.94.15/conf$ hbase-env.sh

          Uncomment and modify the lines in this file as shown

          export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64

          Step 7 - Add configuration

          sudo vi $HBASE_HOME/conf/hbase-site.xml

          type the following in hbase-site.xml file

         <configuration>

                   <property>

                            <name>hbase.rootdir</name>

                            <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>

                   </property>

                   <property>

                             <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>

                             <value>false</value>

                  </property>

           </configuration>

          Step 8 - Setup the region servers

          hduser@ubuntu:/opt/hbase/hbase-0.94.15/conf$ sudo vi regionservers

          localhost

         Add the IP addresses inside one line after another

          Step 9 - Start the HBase using command

          hduser@ubuntu:/opt/hbase/hbase-0.94.15$ bin/start-hbase.sh

          Step 10 - Start regionservers

          hduser@ubuntu:/opt/hbase/hbase-0.94.15$bin/local-regionservers.sh start 1

          Step 11 - Start HBASE shell

          hduser@ubuntu:/opt/hbase/hbase-0.94.15$bin/hbase shell

          Congragulations,Thus installation and configuration of the HBase server is done successfully and ready to proceed further.

          In the next post i will explore some of the examples on HBase