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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
- General Information
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
- The Dawn of Big Data
- The Problem with Relational Database Systems
- Nonrelational Database Systems, Not-Only SQL or NoSQL?
- Building Blocks
- HBase: The Hadoop Database
Chapter 2. Installation
- Quick-Start Guide
- Requirements
  - Hardware
    - Servers
    - Networking
  - Software
- Filesystems for HBase
- Installation Choices
  - Apache Binary Release
  - Building from Source
- Run Modes
  - Standalone Mode
  - Distributed Mode
    - Pseudodistributed mode
    - Fully distributed mode
- Configuration
- Deployment
- Operating a Cluster
Chapter 3. Client API: The Basics
- General Notes
- CRUD Operations
- Batch Operations
- Row Locks
- Scans
- Miscellaneous Features
  - The HTable Utility Methods
  - The Bytes Class
Chapter 4. Client API: Advanced Features
- Filters
- Counters
- Coprocessors
- HTablePool
- Connection Handling
Chapter 5. Client API: Administrative Features
- Schema Definition
- HBaseAdmin
Chapter 6. Available Clients
- Introduction to REST, Thrift, and Avro
- Interactive Clients
- Batch Clients
- Shell
- Web-based UI
Chapter 7. MapReduce Integration
- Framework
- MapReduce over HBase
Chapter 8. Architecture
- Seek Versus Transfer
  - B+ Trees
  - Log-Structured Merge-Trees
- Storage
- Write-Ahead Log
- Read Path
- Region Lookups
- The Region Life Cycle
- ZooKeeper
- Replication
  - Life of a Log Edit
    - Normal processing
    - Non-Responding slave clusters
  - Internals
Chapter 9. Advanced Usage
- Key Design
- Advanced Schemas
- Secondary Indexes
- Search Integration
- Transactions
- Bloom Filters
- Versioning
  - Implicit Versioning
  - Custom Versioning
Chapter 10. Cluster Monitoring
- Introduction
- The Metrics Framework
- Ganglia
  - Installation
    - Ganglia-related steps
      - Ganglia monitoring daemon
      - Ganglia meta daemon
    - HBase-related steps
      - Ganglia web frontend
  - Usage
- JMX
  - JConsole
  - JMX Remote API
- Nagios
Chapter 11. Performance Tuning
- Garbage Collection Tuning
- Memstore-Local Allocation Buffer
- Compression
- Optimizing Splits and Compactions
- Load Balancing
- Merging Regions
- Client API: Best Practices
- Configuration
- Load Tests
  - Performance Evaluation
  - YCSB
Chapter 12. Cluster Administration
- Operational Tasks
- Data Tasks
- Additional Tasks
  - Coexisting Clusters
  - Required Ports
- Changing Logging Levels
- Troubleshooting
Appendix A. HBase Configuration Properties
Appendix B. Road Map
- HBase 0.92.0
- HBase 0.94.0
Appendix C. Upgrade from Previous Releases
- Upgrading to HBase 0.90.x
  - From 0.20.x or 0.89.x
  - Within 0.90.x
- Upgrading to HBase 0.92.0
Appendix D. Distributions
- Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop
Appendix E. Hush SQL Schema
Appendix F. HBase Versus Bigtable
Index

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