A Quick Tutorial to hbase-clj

First, require the required namespaces

(require 
 '(hbase-clj
	 [core :refer :all]
	 [manage :refer :all])))

We could define an hbase handler via hbase-clj.core/defhbase The code below defines a handler which connects to the localhost HBase

(defhbase test-hbase 
  "hbase.zookeeper.quorum" "localhost")

We could create a table via hbase-clj.manage/create-table! The code below creates a table named test_stu using the hbase handler defined above.

(def table-name "test_stu")

(create-table! 
  test-hbase table-name
  "info" "score")

Before we perform any CRUDs on the table, we must create a “schema” on it. The Schema describes how the data from an HBaseTable could be transformed into clojure data-structures. We define a schema via hbase-clj.core/def-hbtable

(def-hbtable test-table
  {:id-type :string 
   :table-name table-name
   :hbase test-hbase}
  :info  {:--ktype :keyword  :--vtype :long :name :string}
  :score {:--ktype :keyword  :--vtype :long})

Then we could perform CRUDs inside a table using hbase-clj.core/with-table

(with-table test-table
  (put! 
    ["101" {:info {:age 17 :name "Alice"}
            :score {:math 99 :physics 78}}]

    ["102" {:info {:age 19 :name "Bob"}
            :score {:math 63 :physics 52}}]))

The hbase-clj.core/get function gets data according to row-keys and other constraints. and returns it as a vector of vec: [row-key data]

(get "102") 
;; => [["102"
        {:info {:age 19 :name "Bob"}
         :score {:math 63 :physics 52}}]]

We can specify the families and cols either

(get "102" {:info :*}) 
;; => [["102" {:info {:age 19 :name "Bob"}}]]

(get "102" {:info :age}) 
;; => [["102" {:info {:age 19}}]]

(get "102" {:info [:age :name]}) 
;; => [["102" {:info {:age 19 :name "Bob"}}]]

If specified with-versions as the first argument, get acts a little different

(get :with-versions "102" {:info :age})
;; => [["102" {:info {:age [ {:val 19 :timestamp xxxxxxx} 
   	                         ...]}}]]

And we’ve got other tasty functions like * hbase-clj.core/scan * hbase-clj.core/incr! * …

Check the complete doc!