Is there a good library for accessing HBase from Python?

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I spent some time looking around, and all I could find is Jython. It's an option, but is there something that could be used in a more pythonesque (simpler) way?

Also see HappyBase: http://happybase.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html. — FMc, Jul 21 '13 at 02:29

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '10 at 09:43

Stargate is still in the contrib part of the Hbase project while ThriftServer is maintained in core(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift). Grab the HBase.thrift file from the repository and run

thrift --gen py HBase.thrift on it, shove the contents into wherever, and startup a thrift server. Stargate is very very slow. The HBase thrift still has some work to be done on it, however it is still being actively worked on

A couple of places to get started

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/ThriftApi

Stargate seems to be an integral part of HBase now. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Stargate — Oren_H, May 15 '12 at 08:38

Ofri Raviv · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-28T20:16:38.330

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You can try thrift python bindings but the project seems dead. I'd go with starting HBase REST server, and then using python standard libraries to access that RESTful web service.

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answered Apr 18 '10 at 16:56

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Stargate works out just fine, though it looks like there is no Python library that would wrap the Stargate calls in Python calls, you have to do it yourself. – Wojtek Apr 21 '10 at 07:57
Stargate link that is mentioned with this answer seems to be not working any more – focode Sep 28 '20 at 13:40
thanks @focode. updated the answer. – Ofri Raviv Sep 28 '20 at 20:17

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '10 at 07:57

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FWIW, I'm trying to get something started at http://github.com/hammer/pyhbase. Totally a hack right now but will be polishing it over the next few weeks. I link to the Mozilla client that I started from.

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 28 '12 at 11:06

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Also go through https://github.com/tousif/Hwrapper wrapper for the Hbase REST api.

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Is there a good library for accessing HBase from Python?

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