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How Does Hbase Support Bulk Data Loading?

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There are two main steps to do a data bulk LOAD in HBASE:

  1. GENERATE Hbase data file(StoreFile) using a custom MAPREDUCE job) from the data source. The StoreFile is created in Hbase internal format which can be efficiently loaded.
  2. The prepared file is imported using another tool like comletebulkload to import data into a running cluster. Each file gets loaded to one specific REGION.

There are two main steps to do a data bulk load in Hbase:


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