Hbase installation on ubuntu

In this tutorial we will see how to install Hbase on ubuntu 16.04 by doing the following steps
Step 1: Before installing Hbase, you need to First ensure that java8 is installed:

Verify that java is correctly installed:

Configuring Java Environment

Step 2: Ensure that hadoop installation was successful on your machine
Check this link for installation

Step 3: Download Apache Hbase

• Go to downloads page
• Choose hbase file: hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz

Step 4: Complete the installation process

• Move the downloaded file “hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz” to your home (~)
• Compress it :
  
  tar -zxvf hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz

  1	tar -zxvf hbase-1.2.5-bin.tar.gz

• Edit hbase-env.sh using this command lines:
  
  cd /usr/local/hbase/conf gedit hbase-env.sh

  1 2	cd /usr/local/hbase/conf     gedit hbase-env.sh

• Add this line:
  
  export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

  1	export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

• Edit hbase-site.xml using this command lines:
  
  cd /usr/local/hbase/conf gedit hbase-site.xml

  1 2	cd /usr/local/hbase/conf     gedit hbase-site.xml

• Add this lines:
  
  <configuration> //Here you have to set the path where you want HBase to store its files. <property> <name>hbase.rootdir</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value> </property> //Here you have to set the path where you want HBase to store its built in zookeeper files. <property> <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name> <value>/home/hadoopworkshop/zookeeper</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name> <value>true</value> </property> </configuration>

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  <configuration>         //Here you have to set the path where you want HBase to store its files.         <property>            <name>hbase.rootdir</name>            <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>         </property>        //Here you have to set the path where you want HBase to store its built in zookeeper  files.         <property>            <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>            <value>/home/hadoopworkshop/zookeeper</value>         </property>         <property>             <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>             <value>true</value>         </property>      </configuration>

• Edit bashrc using this command line:
  
  cd sudo gedit .bashrc

  1 2	cd     sudo gedit .bashrc

• Add this lines:
  
  # - HBASE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES START -# export HBASE_HOME=/usr/local/hbase export PATH=$PATH:$HBASE_HOME/bin # - HBASE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES END -#

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  # - HBASE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES START -#     export HBASE_HOME=/usr/local/hbase     export PATH=$PATH:$HBASE_HOME/bin     # - HBASE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES END -#

• Execute bashrc:
  
  . ~/.bashrc

  1	. ~/.bashrc

Step 5: Start hbase processes

• Start hadoop process first:
  
  start-hdfs.sh start-yarn.sh

  1 2	start-hdfs.sh     start-yarn.sh

• Start hbase:
  
  start-hbase.sh

  1	start-hbase.sh

Step 6: Stop hbase processes

• Stop hbase:
  
  stop-hbase.sh

  1	stop-hbase.sh

• Stop hadoop process:
  
  stop-dfs.sh stop-yarn.sh

  1 2	stop-dfs.sh     stop-yarn.sh