HBase minus shell?

[Joe Pallas <jo...@oracle.com>]

Could you manage an HBase deployment without the HBase shell?  

Suppose, hypothetically, that there was a reason (*cough* lawyers *cough*) that you couldn’t use JRuby and, hence, the HBase shell.  I think the shell is pretty handy although I’m not sure it is essential, but I wonder what others think?

Worst case, all that functionality could be replaced with moderately tedious Java code, I suppose.

Thanks.
joe

Re: HBase minus shell?

[Stack <st...@duboce.net>]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Joe Pallas <jo...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Could you manage an HBase deployment without the HBase shell?
>
> Suppose, hypothetically, that there was a reason (*cough* lawyers *cough*) that you couldn’t use JRuby and, hence, the HBase shell.  I think the shell is pretty handy although I’m not sure it is essential, but I wonder what others think?
>
> Worst case, all that functionality could be replaced with moderately tedious Java code, I suppose.
>

Yes.

Some of what you get in shell can be gotten from UI (You can do split
regions in UI for example) but otherwise, you'll have to write a bit
of code Joe.

If you embark on new shell writing project, let us know (smile).

St.Ack

Re: HBase minus shell?

[Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>]

Yeah the shell is really just a wrapper around HTable and HBaseAdmin,
both the REST and Thrift servers also do those functions (but they are
also missing a few).

J-D

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Joe Pallas <jo...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Could you manage an HBase deployment without the HBase shell?
>
> Suppose, hypothetically, that there was a reason (*cough* lawyers *cough*) that you couldn’t use JRuby and, hence, the HBase shell.  I think the shell is pretty handy although I’m not sure it is essential, but I wonder what others think?
>
> Worst case, all that functionality could be replaced with moderately tedious Java code, I suppose.
>
> Thanks.
> joe
>
>