This section provides an overview of what hbase is, and why a developer might want to use it.

It should also mention any large subjects within hbase, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for hbase is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics.

This topic show various examples of how to use the Java API for HBase. In this topic you will learn to create and delete a table, insert, query and delete rows from a table but also use the Scans filters.

You will notice than many methods of this API take Bytes as parameters for example the columnFamily name, this is due to HBase implementation. For optimization purpose, instead of storing the values as String, Integer or whatever, it stores a list of Bytes, that is why you need to parse all those values as Bytes. To do this, the easiest method is to use Bytes.toBytes(something).

Please feel free to notice if you see any mistake or misunderstanding.