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<para><itemizedlist>
<para>Here is a quick guide to starting up a standalone HBase
instance, inserting rows into a table via the
instance, creating a table and inserting rows into a table via the
<link linkend="shell">HBase Shell</link>, and then cleaning up and shutting
down your running instance.</para>
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Download Mirrors</link>. Click on it. This will take you to a
mirror of <emphasis>HBase Releases</emphasis>. Click on
the folder named <filename>stable</filename> and then download the
file that ends in <filename>.tar.gz</filename>;
file that ends in <filename>.tar.gz</filename> to your local filesystem;
e.g. <filename>hbase-<?eval ${project.version}?>.tar.gz</filename>.</para>
<para>Decompress and untar your download and then change into the
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$ ./bin/start-hbase.sh
starting master, logging to logs/hbase-user-master-example.org.out</programlisting></para>
<para>You now have a running HBase instance. HBase logs can be
found in the <filename>logs</filename> subdirectory. Check them
<para>You now have a running standalone HBase instance. In standalone mode, HBase runs
all daemons in the the one JVM; i.e. the master, regionserver, and zookeeper daemons.
Also by default, HBase in standalone mode writes data to <filename>/tmp/hbase-${USERID}</filename>.
HBase logs can be found in the <filename>logs</filename> subdirectory. Check them
out especially if HBase had trouble starting.</para>
<note>
<title>Is <application>java</application> installed?</title>
<para>The above presumes a 1.6 version of Oracle java is installed on your
<para>The above presumes a 1.6 version of Oracle
<application>java</application> is installed on your
machine and available on your path; i.e. when you type
<application>java</application>, you see output that describes the options
the java program takes. If this is not the case, HBase will not start.
the java program takes (HBase like Hadoop requires java 6). If this is
not the case, HBase will not start.
Install java, edit <filename>conf/hbase-env.sh</filename>, uncommenting the
<envar>JAVA_HOME</envar> line pointing it to your java install. Then,
retry the steps above.</para>
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<listitem>
<para>Create a table named <filename>test</filename> with a single
column family named <filename>cf.</filename> and then insert some
column family named <filename>cf.</filename>. Verify its creation by
listing all tables and then insert some
values.</para>
<para><programlisting>hbase(main):003:0&gt; create 'test', 'cf'
0 row(s) in 1.2200 seconds
hbase(main):003:0&gt; list 'table'
test
1 row(s) in 0.0550 seconds
hbase(main):004:0&gt; put 'test', 'row1', 'cf:a', 'value1'
0 row(s) in 0.0560 seconds
hbase(main):005:0&gt; put 'test', 'row2', 'cf:b', 'value2'
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stopping hbase...............</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>To learn how to set up a HBase in distributed mode, see the next section.</para>
</section>
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