This post was originally published via blogs.apache.org, we republish it here in a slightly modified form for your convenience: At first glance, the Apache HBase architecture appears to follow a master/slave model where the master receives all the requests but the real work is done by the slaves. This is not actually the case, and […]
The current (4.2) release of CDH — Cloudera’s 100% open-source distribution of Apache Hadoop and related projects (including Apache HBase) — introduced a new HBase feature, recently landed in trunk, that allows an admin to take a snapshot of a specified table. Prior to CDH 4.2, the only way to back-up or clone a table […]