Part 2. Advanced concepts

With the basics covered, part 2 explores more advanced topics. Chapter 4 covers, in detail, HBase schema design. It continues the example application established in chapter 2 and provides insight into how to model data in HBase for your application. This chapter will help you understand the trade-offs you’ll make in your schema design choices. Chapter 5 shows how to build and use coprocessors, an advanced technique for pushing computational logic into your HBase cluster, close to where your data is stored. Chapter 6 explains how to interact with HBase with alternative client libraries, on and off the JVM. With this part of the book under your belt, you’ll be ready to make effective use of HBase in your application and also build with HBase in non-Java applications.