This is a very brief installation instruction 🙂 Please feel free to change the path or HBase version.
1. Download the Cloudera training VM from their Website. Start it and follow Clouderas instructions to update the VM.
2. get and install the HBase ‘developer preview’ release
sudo -u hadoop mkdir /home/hadoop/hbase cd /home/hadoop/hbase sudo -u hadoop wget http://artfiles.org/apache.org//hbase/hbase-0.89.20100924/hbase-0.89.20100924-bin.tar.gz sudo -u hadoop tar xvfz hbase-0.89.20100924-bin.tar.gz
3. configure hdsf location
with:
sudo -u hadoop vi hbase-0.89.20100924/conf/hbase-site.xml
add in configuration tag:
hbase.rootdir hdfs://localhost:8022/hbase
4. startup
sudo -u hadoop hbase-0.89.20100924/bin/start-hbase.sh
5: start the HBase shell
hbase-0.89.20100924/bin/hbase shell