Developing Applications for Binary Tables

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database provides a C API, libMapRClient and partially supports the Apache HBase 1.1 Java APIs for performing operation on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database binary tables.

The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database C API, libMapRClient, runs more efficiently on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database and performs faster against HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables than the open source library of C APIs, libhbase, that is used to create and access Apache HBase tables. The libMapRClient header files are in this directory: /opt/mapr/include/hbase

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database also supports all of the Apache HBase 1.1 Java APIs, except where noted in this documentation. For a number of critical Java APIs, for filters, and for comparators, this documentation explicitly lists what is supported, rather than what is not supported.

You can easily port existing applications that use the open-source version of libhbase or the HBase Java APIs to use HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database binary tables.

Current Limitations

  • Custom HBase filters are not supported.
  • HBase co-processors are not supported.
NOTE Filters used with Scan operations support regular expressions. When you filter scans on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables, you can use regular expressions that comprise the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library as well as a subset of the regular expressions that are supported in java.util.regex.pattern. See HBase Java Regular Expressions Support for a list of supported regular expressions.