HDInsight, HBase cluster

Question

Hi,

HDInsight and Hbase cluster are seperate. 

In the pricing details mentioned here 

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/hdinsight/

-- it says "Hadoop+Hbase" pricing

Can anyone explain me please?

Regards,

Sridevi.

Answer 1

Hi Sridevi,

HBase is built on top of HDFS. It provides fast record lookups and updates for large tables. HBase internally puts your data in indexed "StoreFiles" that exist on HDFS for high-speed lookups.

Hope it answer your question.

Thanks,

---

Sudhir Rawat

Answer 2

Hi Sudhir,

While creating HDInsight cluster, it shows both options -  HBase and Hadoop

HBase is built on top of HDFS, So Datanodes acts as regionservers.? And the RDP that gets connected from Hbase cluster acts as Namenode as well as Hbase master. Am I right?

If I create a HBase cluster(Hadoop+Hbase cluster), then that will serve all the functions of Hadoop cluster, in addition to that HBase.

Thanks,

Sridevi.