These are some excellent links to learn Hbase (or to say, unlearn RDBMS way of thinking) http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_Hbase_and_BigTable http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_HBase_column- family_performance_options

I use Ubuntu (saves me a lot of trouble setting up the ssh and stuff). For ubuntu users, here is your link http://www.michael- noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_(Multi-Node_Cluster)

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Understanding_Hbase_and_BigTable

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