NoSQL DB with REST API

I played around with Cassandra which was really easy to install and to get started with. BUT it don't have a REST API and is likely difficult to access directly from JavaScript in a browser (something I'd like to do).

This article has a nice summary of NoSQL DBs:

http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis

Riak, CouchDB, HBase and Neo4j have REST API:s. I'd also like to have Haddop support so I'll test HBase.

## Install HBase from source

wget http://apache.mirror3.ip-only.net/hbase/stable/hbase-0.94.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf hbase-0.94.5.tar.gz 
cd hbase-0.94.5

cat README.txt

nano conf/hbase-site.xml


  <property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
    <value>file:///tmp/hbase</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
    <value>/tmp/zookeeper</value>
  </property>

Let's try to start:

./bin/start-hbase.sh

Check the log file:

cat  /Users/jonas/local/hbase-0.94.5/bin/../logs/hbase-jonas-master-Gizur-Laptop-5.local.out
2013-03-12 13:59:26.806 java[5294:217] Unable to load realm info from SCDynamicStore

Install HBase using brew

http://jamil.fluidsoul.net/2011/06/28/getting-hbase-and-thrift-running-on-a-mac

brew install hbase

ls /usr/local/Cellar/hbase/0.94.4
ls /usr/local/bin/hbase*

nano /usr/local/Cellar/hbase/0.94.4/libexec/conf/hbase-site.xml 

  <property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
    <value>file:///tmp/hbase</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
    <value>/tmp/zookeeper</value>
  </property>

Now start hbase:

export HADOOP_OPTS="-Djava.security.krb5.realm= -Djava.security.krb5.kdc="
/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/0.94.4/bin/start-hbase.sh 

/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/0.94.4/bin/stop-hbase.sh

I'm getting the same error as above. This seams to be a Java/Kerberos related problem. OSX has JRE 1.6 and this is fixed in JRE 1.7.

This don't work either

HBase on Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

AWS has a Hadoop and HBase service. This makes it easy to start a EC2-cluster with HBase.

See separate post from 130227 regarding howto get started with EMR. All that is needed in addition is --hbase flag.

# Start new job
elastic-mapreduce --create --hbase --instance-type m1.large --alive

# Login using ssh
elastic-mapreduce --ssh --jobflow <JOBFLOWID>

# Start hbase shell
./bin/hbase shell

Example using hbase

Start the hbase shell and run:

``` create 'table', 'column'

put 'table', 'key', 'column', 'value'

scan 'table'

get 'table', 'key'