Cloudera HBase Certification Questions and Answers (Dumps and Practice Questions)

Question : Which one of the client interface to HBase you can use, so you will
have functionality needed to store and retrive data from HBase as well as delete obsolete values


1. HMasterInterface
2. HTable
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4. HTablePool



Answers: 2


Explanation: HTable is the class in org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client package , which
provides the user with all the functionality needed to store and retriev data from HBase as well as
delete obsolete values and so on.






Question : Which is/are the statement correct..

A. All operations taht mutate data are gaurnteed to be atomic on a per-row-basis
B. A reading client will not be affected by another updating a particular row
C. Many client can update the same row at same time

1. A,C correct
2. A,B correct
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4. All A,B,C are correct




Answer with explanation:

2 is the best answer.

In HBase data are gaurnteed to be atomic on a per-row-basis a. This affects
all other concurrent readers and writers of that same row.

However, it should be avoided to many clients update the same row at the same time.





Question : Select the correct statement..

A. Create HTable instances only once, usually when your application start
B. Create a separate HTable instance for every thread you execute or use HTablePool
C. Updates are atomic on per row basis



1. Only A,B correct
2. Only B,C correct
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4. All A,B,C are correct


Correct Answer : Get Lastest Questions and Answer :

Creating HTable instances are costly, which involves scanning the .META table to check if the table
actually exists and if it is enabled. As well as fet other operations that make this call quite costly.

Hence it is recommended that you create HTable instance only once - and one per thread and reuse that instance for the rest of the lifetime
of you client application.

Related Questions

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Question : Select the order for scanning the rows..

1. Instantiate a Scan object
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4. Iterator containing Result objects
2. Invoke the getScanner method


1. 1,4,2,3
2. 1,2,3,4
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4. 1,3,4,2





Question : Select the correct statement for Scanner



1. Scanner scans all column families by default
2. Scanner can be restricted to a particular column family
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4. Only 1 and 3 correct
5. Only 1 and 2 are correct

Ans : 5
Exp : Scanner scans all column families by default
addFamily(Bytes.toBytes("colfam"));
Restricts to only certain column families
addColumn(Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),Bytes.toBytes("column"));
- Restricts to only certain columns
setMaxVersions(3);
- Limits the number of versions of each row
- Default number of versions returned is 1




Question :When you use setTimeRange(minTimestamp, maxTimestamp) method on scan which of the following correctly applies



1. Specifies the time range of results
2. Both timestamps are of type long
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4. if rows timestamp = maxTimestamp it will not be returned
5. All of the above

Ans: 5





Question : Select correctly which applies for setStartRow(rowkey); and setStopRow(rowkey);



1. Indicate a scans starting and stopping row
2. Start row is inclusive and stop row is exclusive
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4. 1 and 2
5. 1,2 and 3

Ans : 5







Question : checkAndPut is used for


1. Optimistic locking
2. Can be used to read-modify-write
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4. None of the 1 and 2
Ans :3
Exp : Optimistic locking
- Checks if a rowkey/column family/qualifier/value exists before Put
Can be used to read-modify-write
- Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier = barvalue
- If yes, then Put the values in newrow

Put newrow = new Put(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"));
newrow.add(Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("foovalue"));
table.checkAndPut(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"),
Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("barvalue"), newrow));





Question : You perform a check and put operation from within an HBase application using the following:

table.checkAndPut(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"),
Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("barvalue"), newrow));


Which describes this check and put operation?


1. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier exists and the cell value "barvalue" is equal to newrow. Then return "true".
2. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier and the cell value "barvalue" is NOT equal to newrow. Then return "true".
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4. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier and has the cell value "barvalue". If so, put the values in newrow and return "true".

Ans : 4
Exp : Can be used to read-modify-write
- Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier = barvalue
- If yes, then Put the values in newrow

Put newrow = new Put(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"));
newrow.add(Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("foovalue"));
table.checkAndPut(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"),
Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("barvalue"), newrow));






Question : Match the following options

1. Filters
2. RowFilter
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4. Page Filter

A. Filter by row key
B. Used to restrict the rows returned from a scanner and Applied on the server side
C. Limit the number of rows returned and Applied per region
D. Filter by cell value



1. 1-B,2-A,3-C,4-D
2. 1-B,2-A, 3-D,4-C
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4. 1-A,2-C, 3-B,4-D
Ans : 2
Exp :Used to restrict the rows returned from a scanner
Applied on the server side
RowFilter
- Filter by row key
ValueFilter
- Filter by cell value
PageFilter
- Limit the number of rows returned
- Applied per region
Many more Filter implementations
- org.apache.hadoop.hbase.filter.*

Example :
Scan s = new Scan();
s.setFilter(new ValueFilter(CompareOp.EQUAL, new BinaryComparator(Bytes.toBytes("foo"))));




Question :

Which of the following steps are part of HBase bulk load process



1. MapReduce job to output data into HBase data format
2. Directly load the Output from Mapreduce Job HBase data format files into a running HBase cluster
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4. All 1,2 and 3 are correct
5. Only 1 and 2 are correct

Ans : 5
Exp : HBase bulk load process consists of two steps
1. MapReduce job to output data into HBase data format
2. Directly load the data files into a running HBase cluster



Question :

Writing directly to HBase file format (HFile) is not efficient


1. True
2. False

Ans : 2
Exp : Writing directly to HBase file format (HFile) is more efficient, but tricky
- Data must be split into regions appropriately



Question :

Select the order for bulk load operation

1. Iterates through the prepared data files
2. For each file determines the region the file belongs to
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1. 2,1,3
2. 1,2,3
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4. 2,3,1
Ans : 2
Exp : Data is loaded into HBase using a command line tool
- Iterates through the prepared data files
- For each file determines the region the file belongs to
- Moves the HFiles to the appropriate Region Server storage directory


Question :

While loading the data in HBase region boundary changes, then which statement does not apply



1. Command line utility automatically splits the data files into pieces
2. Pieces correspond to the new boundaries
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4. Minimize time between preparing and loading data
5. None of the above
Ans :5




Question : You have created an Android Application which is so popular that, it is being used by more than M users. In the application you have features
for ratings between 1 to 10. Each android application has writer updating a same cell. While analyzing the datat you find a race condition
such that two writer can overwrite each other's changes. Lets say the cell's contents are 6,7.
The series of events you have identified are as follows:
Writer1: Reads 6,7 -> Writer2: Reads 6,7 -> Writer1: Writes 6,4,7 -> Writer2: Writes 6,7,5
How can you solve such issues?

1. The client application should maintain the proper order of the operation so it will never update the same cell
2. The best way to solve this problem, first check the value and then applu put option using HTable.checkAndPut
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4. HBase automatically handle such issues, there is no extra attention needed.
Ans :2 Exp : Class HTable : Used to communicate with a single HBase table. An implementation of HTableInterface. Instances of this class can be constructed directly but it is encouraged that users get instances via HConnection and HConnectionManager. See HConnectionManager class comment for an example.This class is not thread safe for reads nor write.In case of writes (Put, Delete), the underlying write buffer can be corrupted if multiple threads contend over a single HTable instance.In case of reads, some fields used by a Scan are shared among all threads. The HTable implementation can either not contract to be safe in case of a Get Instances of HTable passed the same Configuration instance will share connections to servers out on the cluster and to the zookeeper ensemble as well as caches of region locations. This is usually a *good* thing and it is recommended to reuse the same configuration object for all your tables. This happens because they will all share the same underlying HConnection instance. See HConnectionManager for more on how this mechanism works. HConnection will read most of the configuration it needs from the passed Configuration on initial construction. Thereafter, for settings such as hbase.client.pause, hbase.client.retries.number, and hbase.client.rpc.maxattempts updating their values in the passed Configuration subsequent to HConnection construction will go unnoticed. To run with changed values, make a new HTable passing a new Configuration instance that has the new configuration. Note that this class implements the Closeable interface. When a HTable instance is no longer required, it *should* be closed in order to ensure that the underlying resources are promptly released. Please note that the close method can throw java.io.IOException that must be handled. In HBase, reads and writes are not atomic operations. Basically, Get and Put are not atominc, another client could do Put between the Get and the Put. In order to make sure that your write is successful only if a specific value is present in a row, you can usecheckAndPut method. The method checkAndPut returns true if a row with specific column family, and column qualifier value matches the expected value, then it executes the put, with new value. If a specific value is not present in a row, then the put is not executed and checkAndPut returns false.
public boolean checkAndPut(byte[] row,
byte[] family,
byte[] qualifier,
byte[] value,
Put put)
throws IOException
Atomically checks if a row/family/qualifier value matches the expected value. If it does, it adds the put. If the passed value is null, the check is for the lack of column (ie: non-existance).



Question : From within an Acmeshell Android Application on HBase you are performing a check and put operation with the following code:
acmeTable.checkAndPut(Bytes.toBytes("key100"), Bytes.toBytes("fam100"),Bytes.toBytes("qualifier100"), Bytes.toBytes("100value"), newrow));
Which describes this check and put operation?

1. Check if key100/fam100/qualifier100 exists and has the cell value "100value". If so,put the values in newrow and return "false".
2. Check if key100/fam100/qualifier100 exists and the cell value "100value" is equal to newrow. Then return "true".
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4. Check if key100/fam100/qualifier100 exists and the cell value "100value" is NOT equal to newrow. Then return "true"
Ans : 3
Exp : Class HTable
Used to communicate with a single HBase table. An implementation of HTableInterface. Instances of this class can be constructed directly but it is encouraged that users get instances via HConnection and HConnectionManager. See HConnectionManager class comment for an example. This class is not thread safe for reads nor write.
In case of writes (Put, Delete), the underlying write buffer can be corrupted if multiple threads contend over a single HTable instance.
In case of reads, some fields used by a Scan are shared among all threads. The HTable implementation can either not contract to be safe in case of a Get
Instances of HTable passed the same Configuration instance will share connections to servers out on the cluster and to the zookeeper ensemble as well as caches of region locations. This is usually a *good* thing and it is recommended to reuse the same configuration object for all your tables. This happens because they will all share the same underlying HConnection instance. See HConnectionManager for more on how this mechanism works.
HConnection will read most of the configuration it needs from the passed Configuration on initial construction. Thereafter, for settings such as hbase.client.pause, hbase.client.retries.number, and hbase.client.rpc.maxattempts updating their values in the passed Configuration subsequent to HConnection construction will go unnoticed. To run with changed values, make a new HTable passing a new Configuration instance that has the new configuration.

Note that this class implements the Closeable interface. When a HTable instance is no longer required, it *should* be closed in order to ensure that the underlying resources are promptly released. Please note that the close method can throw java.io.IOException that must be handled.

The method checkAndPut returns "true" if a row with specific column family, and column qualifier value matches the expected value; if "true" is returned, it executes the put with new value. If the specific value is not present in a row, it returns "false" and the put is not executed. Further Reading



Question : Using your Android application advertisement clickstream you want to do conditional insert as below.
You want to insert a value into 01012015/adcolumnfamily101/columnqualifier202 but only if a specific value is already present in
01012015/adClickcolumnfamily101/columnqualifier404. Which of the following table method(s) will help for this conditional insert.


1. existsAndPut();
2. checkAndPut();

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4. removeAndPut();

Ans :2 Exp : In order to make sure that your write is successful only if a specific value is present in a row, you can usecheckAndPut method. The method checkAndPut returns true if a row with specific column family, and column qualifier value matches the expected value, then it executes the put, with new value. If a specific value is not present in a row, then the put is not executed and checkAndPut returns false.
public boolean checkAndPut(byte[] row,
byte[] family,
byte[] qualifier,
byte[] value,
Put put)
throws IOException

Atomically checks if a row/family/qualifier value matches the expected value. If it does, it adds the put. If the passed value is null, the check is for the lack of column (ie: non-existance).





Question : From within an Acmeshell Android based HBase application named as AcmeStock, where you store many variations of stocks price troughout the day,
now in your AcmeStock application you want to provide the feature so that in a day at least 10 price variations of the stock you can show to end user, if they exist.
Where in your Acmeshell HBase application should configure the maximum number of versions to be retrieved?

1. HTableDescriptor
2. HColumnDescriptor
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4. HTable
Ans :3
Exp : HBase give you 2 classes to retrieve data: Get and Scan.
Class Get reads data by specifying a single row key. Get.setMaxVersions()can limit the number of rows to read.
Class Scan reads the entire rows, or reads data by specifying a startRow parameter and stopRow parameter.
Scan.setMaxVersions()can limit the number of rows to read. Gets are implemented on top of Scans. The below discussion of Get applies equally to Scans. By default, i.e. if you specify no explicit version, when doing a get, the cell whose version has the largest value is returned (which may or may not be the latest one written, see later). The default behavior can be modified in the following ways: to return more than one version, see Get.setMaxVersions()

to return versions other than the latest, see Get.setTimeRange() To retrieve the latest version that is less than or equal to a given value, thus giving the 'latest' state of the record at a certain point in time, just use a range from 0 to the desired version and set the max versions to 1.

Default Get Example The following Get will only retrieve the current version of the row

public static final byte[] CF = "cf".getBytes();
public static final byte[] ATTR = "attr".getBytes();
...
Get get = new Get(Bytes.toBytes("row1"));
Result r = htable.get(get);
byte[] b = r.getValue(CF, ATTR); // returns current version of value

Versioned Get Example
The following Get will return the last 3 versions of the row.

public static final byte[] CF = "cf".getBytes();
public static final byte[] ATTR = "attr".getBytes();
...
Get get = new Get(Bytes.toBytes("row1"));
get.setMaxVersions(3); // will return last 3 versions of row
Result r = htable.get(get);
byte[] b = r.getValue(CF, ATTR); // returns current version of value
List(KeyValue> kv = r.getColumn(CF, ATTR); // returns all versions of this column


Question : You have configured more than one HMasters and all fail. Your Acmeshell, AcmeStock application client needs to write one row to an existing region.
What is the effect on your AcmeStock client application when all the HMaster got failed.

1. The client application writes to a ZooKeeper znode. The next available HMastercompletes the write when the HMaster comes online
2. The HMaster completes the write when it comes back online and notifies the client application
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4. The client application fails with NullPointerException
Ans : 3
Exp : HMaster is the "master server" for HBase. An HBase cluster has one active master. If many masters are started, all compete. Whichever wins goes on to run the cluster. All others park themselves in their constructor until master or cluster shutdown or until the active master loses its lease in zookeeper. Thereafter, all running master jostle to take over master role. The Master can be asked shutdown the cluster. See shutdown(). In this case it will tell all regionservers to go down and then wait on them all reporting in that they are down. This master will then shut itself down. You can also shutdown just this master. Call stopMaster().The basic unit of scalability, that provides the horizontal scalability, in HBase is called Region. Regions are a subset of the tables data, and they are essentially a contiguous, sorted range of rows that are stored together.
To put a row in an existing region, clients don't have to contact the HMaster; clients contact the RegionServer that handles the specified row directly. The RegionServer information is cached for a rowkey from the first data operation.
A Region Server can serve one or more Regions. Each Region is assigned to a Region Server on startup and the master can decide to move a Region from one Region Server to another as the result of a load balance operation. The Master also handles Region Server failures by assigning the region to another Region Server.

The mapping of Regions to Region Servers is kept in a system table called META. By reading META, you can identify which region is responsible for your key. This means that for read and write operations, the master is not involved at all, and clients can go directly to the Region Server responsible to serve the requested data.



Question : You are an Administrator of the Acmeshell INC's data center and you also look in depth of HBase infrastructure.
While monitoring you obeserved that your HBase Android based client application is writing to a daughter region. Select the
correct statement regarding recently done operation in HBase.


1. Hadoop Primary NameNode crashed and Passive node become active,
2. One of the RegionServer failed

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4. Recently a region split happened.
Ans :4
Exp : When a store file within a region grows larger than the configured hbase.hregion.max.filesize or what is configured at the column family level using HColumnDescriptor, HBase splits the region in two. The system creates two new reference files (called daughters) each hosting half the original region (called the parent). Then, HBase closes the parent region so that no new requests to that parent region are possible. The RegionServer prepares the new daughter regions, updates the .META. table with the location of the new regions (the daughters). Thus, if your client application is writing to a daughter region, a split recently finished.
Splits run unaided on the RegionServer; i.e. the Master does not participate. The RegionServer splits a region, offlines the split region and then adds the daughter regions to META, opens daughters on the parent's hosting RegionServer and then reports the split to the Master.Considerations for Number of Regions In general, HBase is designed to run with a small (20-200) number of relatively large (5-20Gb) regions per server. The considerations for this are as follows: Why cannot I have too many regions? Typically you want to keep your region count low on HBase for numerous reasons. Usually right around 100 regions per RegionServer has yielded the best results. Here are some of the reasons below for keeping region count low: MSLAB requires 2mb per memstore (thats 2mb per family per region). 1000 regions that have 2 families each is 3.9GB of heap used, and it's not even storing data yet. NB: the 2MB value is configurable. If you fill all the regions at somewhat the same rate, the global memory usage makes it that it forces tiny flushes when you have too many regions which in turn generates compactions. Rewriting the same data tens of times is the last thing you want. An example is filling 1000 regions (with one family) equally and let's consider a lower bound for global memstore usage of 5GB (the region server would have a big heap). Once it reaches 5GB it will force flush the biggest region, at that point they should almost all have about 5MB of data so it would flush that amount. 5MB inserted later, it would flush another region that will now have a bit over 5MB of data, and so on. This is currently the main limiting factor for the number of regions;
The master as is is allergic to tons of regions, and will take a lot of time assigning them and moving them around in batches. The reason is that it's heavy on ZK usage, and it's not very async at the moment (could really be improved and has been imporoved a bunch in 0.96 hbase). In older versions of HBase (pre-v2 hfile, 0.90 and previous), tons of regions on a few RS can cause the store file index to rise, increasing heap usage and potentially creating memory pressure or OOME on the RSs Another issue is the effect of the number of regions on mapreduce jobs; it is typical to have one mapper per HBase region. Thus, hosting only 5 regions per RS may not be enough to get sufficient number of tasks for a mapreduce job, while 1000 regions will generate far too many tasks. When HBase starts regions are assigned as follows (short version): The Master invokes the AssignmentManager upon startup. The AssignmentManager looks at the existing region assignments in META. If the region assignment is still valid (i.e., if the RegionServer is still online) then the assignment is kept. If the assignment is invalid, then the LoadBalancerFactory is invoked to assign the region. The DefaultLoadBalancer will randomly assign the region to a RegionServer. META is updated with the RegionServer assignment (if needed) and the RegionServer start codes (start time of the RegionServer process) upon region opening by the RegionServer.
When a RegionServer fails: The regions immediately become unavailable because the RegionServer is down. The Master will detect that the RegionServer has failed. The region assignments will be considered invalid and will be re-assigned just like the startup sequence. In-flight queries are re-tried, and not lost. Operations are switched to a new RegionServer within the following amount of time: ZooKeeper session timeout + split time + assignment or replay time Over time, Region-RegionServer locality is achieved via HDFS block replication. The HDFS client does the following by default when choosing locations to write replicas: First replica is written to local node Second replica is written to a random node on another rack Third replica is written on the same rack as the second, but on a different node chosen randomly.
Subsequent replicas are written on random nodes on the cluster Thus, HBase eventually achieves locality for a region after a flush or a compaction. In a RegionServer failover situation a RegionServer may be assigned regions with non-local StoreFiles (because none of the replicas are local), however as new data is written in the region, or the table is compacted and StoreFiles are re-written, they will become "local" to the RegionServer. For more information, see Replica Placement: The First Baby Steps on this page: HDFS Architecture and also Lars George's blog on HBase and HDFS locality. Region Splits : Regions split when they reach a configured threshold. Below we treat the topic in short. For a longer exposition, see Apache HBase Region Splitting and Merging by our Enis Soztutar. Splits run unaided on the RegionServer; i.e. the Master does not participate. The RegionServer splits a region, offlines the split region and then adds the daughter regions to META, opens daughters on the parent's hosting RegionServer and then reports the split to the Master. Managed Splitting for how to manually manage splits (and for why you might do this)
Custom Split Policies : The default split policy can be overwritten using a custom RegionSplitPolicy (HBase 0.94+). Typically a custom split policy should extend HBase's default split policy: ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy.


Question : While monitoring HBase infrasturucture in Acmeshell Inc. datacenter , you find that your Android based client attempting to querying ZooKeeper
to find the location of the HMaster? So which of the following operation your client has fired...

1. They are looking for the data based on a RowKey value
2. They are looking where to append the new data
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4. They are looking for which shell needs to be updated
Ans : 3
Exp : The basic unit of scalability, that provides the horizontal scalability, in HBase is called Region. Regions are a subset of the tables data, and they are essentially a contiguous, sorted range of rows that are stored together.

Initially, there is only one region for a table. When regions become too large after adding more rows, the region is split into two at the middle key, creating two roughly equal halves.

HMaster is the implementation of the Master Server. The Master server is responsible for monitoring all RegionServer instances in the cluster, and is the interface for all metadata changes. In a distributed cluster, the Master typically runs on the NameNode
Startup Behavior : If run in a multi Master environment, all Masters compete to run the cluster. If the active Master loses its lease in ZooKeeper (or the Master shuts down), then then the remaining Masters jostle to take over the Master role.
Runtime Impact : A common dist list question involves what happens to an HBase cluster when the Master goes down. Because the HBase client talks directly to the RegionServers, the cluster can still function in a "steady state." Additionally, Catalog Tables, hbase:meta exists as an HBase table and is not resident in the Master. However, the Master controls critical functions such as RegionServer failover and completing region splits. So while the cluster can still run for a short time without the Master, the Master should be restarted as soon as possible.
Interface : The methods exposed by HMasterInterface are primarily metadata-oriented methods:
Table (createTable, modifyTable, removeTable, enable, disable)
ColumnFamily (addColumn, modifyColumn, removeColumn)
Region (move, assign, unassign)
For example, when the HBaseAdmin method disableTable is invoked, it is serviced by the Master server.
Processes : The Master runs several background threads:
LoadBalancer : Periodically, and when there are no regions in transition, a load balancer will run and move regions around to balance the cluster's load. See Section Balancer for configuring this property.
catalogJanitor : Periodically checks and cleans up the hbase:meta table.
The client will ask ZooKeeper to find the location of HMaster when you need to change metadata: such as creating a table, adding column family to an existing table, deleting a table, etc.

To scan or put data, clients don't have to contact the HMaster, clients can contact the RegionServer that handles the specified row directly.

HMaster is the implementation of the Master Server. The Master server is responsible for monitoring all RegionServer instances in the cluster, and is the interface for all metadata changes. In a distributed cluster, the Master typically runs on the NameNode

Master or Slave architecture does not mean that each operation goes through the master. To read and write data the HBase client, in fact, goes directly to the specific Region Server responsible to handle the row keys for all the data operations (HTable). The Master is used by the client only for table creation, modification and deletion operations.


Question :While reading a particular rowkey from a table what steps will be used to find the RegionServer ?

1. i). It first find the NameNode
ii). On NameNode it will look for the location of .META.
iii). In .META it will looks up the location of the correct region for the table
2. i). It first find the NameNode
ii). On NameNode's .META file it will looks up the location of the correct region for the table
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ii). In .META it will look -ROOT-
iii). In -ROOT- it will looks up the location of the correct region for the table
4. i). It first find the -ROOT- table
ii). In -RROT- it will look for the location of .META.
iii). In .META it will looks up the location of the correct region for the table
Ans :4 Exp : Catalog Tables : The catalog table hbase:meta exists as an HBase table and is filtered out of the HBase shell's list command, but is in fact a table just like any other. -ROOT- The -ROOT- table was removed in HBase 0.96.0. The -ROOT- table kept track of the location of the .META table (the previous name for the table now called hbase:meta) prior to HBase 0.96. The -ROOT- table structure was as follows:
Key : .META. region key (.META.,,1) Values : info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance of hbase:meta) info:server (server:port of the RegionServer holding hbase:meta) info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process holding hbase:meta)
hbase:meta The hbase:meta table (previously called .META.) keeps a list of all regions in the system. The location of hbase:meta was previously tracked within the -ROOT- table, but is now stored in Zookeeper. The hbase:meta table structure is as follows:
Key : Region key of the format ([table],[region start key],[region id])
Values : info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance for this region)
info:server (server:port of the RegionServer containing this region)
info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process containing this region)
When a table is in the process of splitting, two other columns will be created, called info:splitA and info:splitB. These columns represent the two daughter regions. The values for these columns are also serialized HRegionInfo instances. After the region has been split, eventually this row will be deleted.
Note on HRegionInfo The empty key is used to denote table start and table end. A region with an empty start key is the first region in a table. If a region has both an empty start and an empty end key, it is the only region in the table In the (hopefully unlikely) event that programmatic processing of catalog metadata is required, see the Writables utility. Startup Sequencing First, the location of hbase:meta is looked up in Zookeeper. Next, hbase:meta is updated with server and startcode values. Note: In HBase .95 and above, the -ROOT- table has been dropped in favor of storing the location of .META. in ZooKeeper. The test will change to reflect this in January 2014. To locate the RegionServer for reading a row, HBase uses two catalog tables that most users will never have to touch, -ROOT- and .META.. .META. holds the location of the regions of all the tables. -ROOT- holds the location of .META.. The general flow is that a new client contacts the Zookeeper quorum (a separate cluster of Zookeeper nodes) first to find a particular row key. It does so by retrieving the server name (i.e. host name) that hosts the -ROOT- region from Zookeeper. With that information it can query that server to get the server that hosts the .META. table. Both of these two details are cached and only looked up once. Lastly it can query the .META. server and retrieve the server that has the row the client is looking for. Once it has been told where the row resides, i.e. in what region, it caches this information as well and contacts the HRegionServer hosting that region directly. So over time the client has a pretty complete picture of where to get rows from without needing to query the .META. server again.



Question : You have a huge HBase table with billions of records, many RegionServers, and a region size of MB.
Now you see that new inserts are keep coming based on unique advertisement and timestamp as a row key, and need write performance to be improved.
What is next step for that ?


1. Increae your region size to 1GB

2. Decrease your number of RegionServers by 50%

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4. Increase block cache as well as block size
Ans : 3 Exp : HBase is the Hadoop storage manager that provides low-latency random reads and writes on top of HDFS, and it can handle petabytes of data. One of the interesting capabilities in HBase is auto-sharding, which simply means that tables are dynamically distributed by the system when they become too large.
The basic unit of horizontal scalability in HBase is called a Region. Regions are a subset of the table's data and they are essentially a contiguous, sorted range of rows that are stored together. Initially, there is only one region for a table. As shown below, when regions become too large after adding more rows, the region is split into two at the middle key, creating two roughly equal halves.In HBase the slaves are called Region Servers. Each Region Server is responsible to serve a set of regions, and one Region (i.e. range of rows) can be served only by one Region Server. The HBase architecture has two main services: HMaster that is responsible to coordinate the cluster and execute administrative operations, and the HRegionServer responsible for handling a subset of the table's data.HBase clusters expand by adding RegionServers that are hosted on industry-standard servers (often called commodity hardware). If a cluster expands with more RegionServers, it increases both in terms of storage and processing capacity. When you want to increase HBase write throughput, moving into bigger cluster by adding RegionServers will improve write performance. HMaster, Region Assignment, and Balancing
As previously mentioned, the HBase Master coordinates the HBase Cluster and is responsible for administrative operations. A Region Server can serve one or more Regions. Each Region is assigned to a Region Server on startup and the master can decide to move a Region from one Region Server to another as the result of a load balance operation. The Master also handles Region Server failures by assigning the region to another Region Server. The mapping of Regions and Region Servers is kept in a system table called META. By reading META, you can identify which region is responsible for your key. This means that for read and write operations, the master is not involved at all and clients can go directly to the Region Server responsible to serve the requested data. To put or get a row clients don't have to contact the master, clients can directly contact the Region Server that handles the specified row, or in case of a client scan, can directly contact the set of Region Servers responsible for handling the set of keys: To identify the Region Server, the client does a query on the META table. META is a system table used to keep track of regions. It contains the server name and a region identifier comprising a table name and the start row-key. By looking at the start-key and the next region start-key clients are able to identify the range of rows contained in a a particular region. The client keeps a cache for the region locations. This avoids clients to hit the META table every time an operation on the same region is issued. In case of a region split or move to another Region Server (due to balancing, or assignment policies), the client will receive an exception as response and the cache will be refreshed by fetching the updated information from the META table:
Since META is a table like the others, the client has to identify on which server META is located. The META locations are stored in a ZooKeeper node on assignment by the Master, and the client reads directly the node to get the address of the Region Server that contains META.
HBase's original design was based on BigTable, with another table called -ROOT- containing the META locations and Apache ZooKeeper pointing to it. HBase 0.96 removed that arrangement in favor of ZooKeeper only, since META cannot be split and therefore consists of a single region. Client API: Master and Regions Responsibilities : The HBase Java client API has two main interfaces: HBaseAdmin allows interaction with the "table schema" by creating/deleting/modifying tables, and it allows interaction with the cluster by assigning/unassigning regions, merging regions together, calling for a flush, and so on. This interface communicates with the Master. HTable allows the client to manipulate the data of a specified table by using get, put, delete, and all the other data operations. This interface communicates directly with the Region Servers responsible for handling the requested set of keys. Those two interfaces have separate responsibilities: HBaseAdmin is only used to execute admin operations and communicate with the Master while the HTable is used to manipulate data and communicate with the Regions.
Conclusion : As we've seen here, having a Master/Slave architecture does not mean that each operation goes through the master. To read and write data, the HBase client, in fact, goes directly to the specific Region Server responsible for handling the row keys for all the data operations (HTable). The Master is used by the client only for table creation, modification, and deletion operations (HBaseAdmin). Although the a concept of a Master exists, the HBase client does not depend on it for data operations and the cluster can keep serving data even if the master goes down.


Question : In HBase default settings, where is the data first written ?



1. Write Ahead Log
2. MemCache
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4. In Hive table
Ans :1 Exp : Apache HBase is the Hadoop database, and is based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HBase makes it possible to randomly access and update data stored in HDFS, but files in HDFS can only be appended to and are immutable after they are created. So you may ask, how does HBase provide low-latency reads and writes? In this blog post, we explain this by describing the write path of HBase - how data is updated in HBase. The write path is how an HBase completes put or delete operations. This path begins at a client, moves to a region server, and ends when data eventually is written to an HBase data file called an HFile. Included in the design of the write path are features that HBase uses to prevent data loss in the event of a region server failure. Therefore understanding the write path can provide insight into HBase's native data loss prevention mechanism. Each HBase table is hosted and managed by sets of servers which fall into three categories: One active master server , One or more backup master servers, Many region servers
Region servers contribute to handling the HBase tables. Because HBase tables can be large, they are broken up into partitions called regions. Each region server handles one or more of these regions. Note that because region servers are the only servers that serve HBase table data, a master server crash cannot cause data loss. HBase data is organized similarly to a sorted map, with the sorted key space partitioned into different shards or regions. An HBase client updates a table by invoking put or delete commands. When a client requests a change, that request is routed to a region server right away by default. However, programmatically, a client can cache the changes in the client side, and flush these changes to region servers in a batch, by turning the autoflush off. If autoflush is turned off, the changes are cached until flush-commits is invoked, or the buffer is full depending on the buffer size set programmatically or configured with parameter "hbase.client.write.buffer". Since the row key is sorted, it is easy to determine which region server manages which key. A change request is for a specific row. Each row key belongs to a specific region which is served by a region server. So based on the put or delete's key, an HBase client can locate a proper region server. At first, it locates the address of the region server hosting the -ROOT- region from the ZooKeeper quorum. From the root region server, the client finds out the location of the region server hosting the -META- region. From the meta region server, then we finally locate the actual region server which serves the requested region. This is a three-step process, so the region location is cached to avoid this expensive series of operations. If the cached location is invalid (for example, we get some unknown region exception), it's time to re-locate the region and update the cache. After the request is received by the right region server, the change cannot be written to a HFile immediately because the data in a HFile must be sorted by the row key. This allows searching for random rows efficiently when reading the data. Data cannot be randomly inserted into the HFile. Instead, the change must be written to a new file. If each update were written to a file, many small files would be created. Such a solution would not be scalable nor efficient to merge or read at a later time. Therefore, changes are not immediately written to a new HFile. Instead, each change is stored in a place in memory called the memstore, which cheaply and efficiently supports random writes. Data in the memstore is sorted in the same manner as data in a HFile. When the memstore accumulates enough data, the entire sorted set is written to a new HFile in HDFS. Completing one large write task is efficient and takes advantage to HDFS' strengths.You client application will connect to a RegionServer which will write data first to its write-ahead log, it's WAL, called HLog, and then to the MemStore, which holds in-memory modifications (KeyValues) for that Store, which is flushed to disk (HFile): Client -> RegionServer -> WAL (HLog) -> MemStore -> flushed to disk (HFile). As the WAL resides in HDFS, data is not written to the local disk of the RegionServer. Write Ahead Log (WAL) Purpose Each RegionServer adds updates (Puts, Deletes) to its write-ahead log (WAL) first, and then to the Section "MemStore" for the affected Section "Store". This ensures that HBase has durable writes. Without WAL, there is the possibility of data loss in the case of a RegionServer failure before each MemStore is flushed and new StoreFiles are written. HLog is the HBase WAL implementation, and there is one HLog instance per RegionServer. The WAL is in HDFS in /hbase/.logs/ with subdirectories per region. Although writing data to the memstore is efficient, it also introduces an element of risk: Information stored in memstore is stored in volatile memory, so if the system fails, all memstore information is lost. To help mitigate this risk, HBase saves updates in a write-ahead-log (WAL) before writing the information to memstore. In this way, if a region server fails, information that was stored in that server's memstore can be recovered from its WAL. Note: By default, WAL is enabled, but the process of writing the WAL file to disk does consume some resources. WAL may be disabled, but this should only be done if the risk of data loss is not a concern. If you choose to disable WAL, consider implementing your own disaster recovery solution or be prepared for the possibility of data loss. The data in a WAL file is organized differently from HFile. WAL files contain a list of edits, with one edit representing a single put or delete. The edit includes information about the change and the region to which the change applies. Edits are written chronologically, so, for persistence, additions are appended to the end of the WAL file that is stored on disk. Because WAL files are ordered chronologically, there is never a need to write to a random place within the file. As WALs grow, they are eventually closed and a new, active WAL file is created to accept additional edits. This is called "rolling" the WAL file. Once a WAL file is rolled, no additional changes are made to the old file. By default, WAL file is rolled when its size is about 95% of the HDFS block size. You can configure the multiplier using parameter: "hbase.regionserver.logroll.multiplier", and the block size using parameter: "hbase.regionserver.hlog.blocksize". WAL file is also rolled periodically based on configured interval "hbase.regionserver.logroll.period", an hour by default, even the WAL file size is smaller than the configured limit.

Question :

Please select the correct staement for Hbase



1. HBase is a Distributed Database
2. HBase is Hadoop Application
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4. HBase should be used when you require realtime read or write random access to data
5. 1,2 and 4 are correct
Ans : 5
Exp : HBase is a distributed column oriented database build on top of HDFS and it is a Hadoop Application, which can be used when the requirement is to realtime read or write random access to very large datasets.


Question : HBase is not a relational database but support SQL


1. 1. True
2. 2. False
Ans : 2

Exp : Hbase is not a relational database and even it does not support SQL


Question :

In HBase data cells how versioning is implemented


1. HBase create unique cell id based on some numeric and character
2. Versioning is done based on Hash Key of the Cell value
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4. There is no versioning support in HBase

Ans : 3
Exp :HBase version Cell values and their versioning is maintained is on Current Timestamp which is auto assigned by HBase at the time of Cell Insertion



Question :

In HBase a cell content is an UnInterpreted array of Bytes


1. True
2. False

Ans : 1



Question :

Which of the following datatype can be considered for row key representation in HBase table


1. Binary representation of Long
2. String
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4. All of the Above
Ans : 4

Exp : Table row keys are Byte Array, So anything can serve as a key.


Question :

Tables rows are sorted by table's Primary Key


1. True
2. False
Ans : 1

Exp : Tables rows are sorted by Row Key the tables primary key and the sorting is Byte Ordered. All table access are by the table Prmary Key


Question :

You have already defined a Column Family with five columns in it and a New Requirement comes upto add new column in this existing column family, which of the following statement is correct ?


1. You can not add new colum to existing column family.
2. You need to empty the column family and add new column and repopulate the data.
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4. None of the above are correct
Ans : 3

Exp : A table's column families must be specified upfront as part of table schema definition. However, new column family members can be added on demand.



Question :

Physically all column family members are stored separately if they have more than three columns ?


1. True
2. Flase
Ans : 2

Exp : Physically all column family members are stored together on the file system.


Question :

Which is the correct statement in case of HBase database

1. In HBase table rows are sorted
2. Columns can be added on the fly if column family pre-exist
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4. All of the above
Ans : 4




Question : Which of the following is valid syntex to represent singke column family.




1. Emplyee:name, Emplyee:Salary, Employee:age
2. Employee:firstName, manager:employee:salary, Employee:age
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4. All of the above

Ans : 1
Exp : Row columns are grouped in a column families all column family members have a common prefix, so for example the column employee:name,employee:salary,employee:age are all mebers of employee column family, and options 2 and 3 ae not valid syntex



Question : Initiallly a table comprises of two regions one started filling first and second for reservation




1. True
2. False
Ans : 2

Exp : Initially a table comprises a single regionbut the size of the region grows, after it crosses a configurable size threshold, it split at row boundary into two new regions of approximately equal size.



Question : Which one is the correct statement for HBase regions.
1. Tables are automatically partitioned horizontally by HBase into regions
2. Regions are the unit that get distributed over on HBase cluster
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1. 1 and 2 are correct
2. 2 and 3 Are correct
3 1 and 3 are correct
4. 1 ,2 and 3 are correct

Ans : 4



Question : There is a column family of employee, current value in a row one (john,$,) : (name,salary,age).
Now your one application is updating the salary to $5500 and at the same time application two is fecthing salary (Same monment), what value will be return to application two




1. $5000
2. $5500
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4. Error will be thrown

Ans : 1

Exp : Row updates are atomic, nomatter how many row columns it has. All transaction are the row level transaction.


Question : Which of the following is responsibility of HBase master




1. Boostrapping a region installed
2. Assigning regions to registerd region servers
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4. All of the above
Ans : 4



Question : Which statement are true

1. HBase depends on ZooKeeper
2. HBase mangers are Zookeeper instance as authority on cluster state
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1. Only 3
2. Only 2 and 3
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4. All of the above
Ans : 4



Question : Completebulkload Tool is used import the data into the running cluster




1. True
2. False
Ans : 1



Question : You have one primary HMaster and one standby. Your primary HMaster Falls fails and your client application
needs to make a metadata change. Which of the following is the effect on your client application?


1. The client will query ZooKeeper to find the location of the new HMaster and complete the metadata change.
2. The client will make the metadata change regardless of the slate of the HMaster.
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4. The client application will fail with a runtime error.
Ans : 1


Exp:
The HBase master publishes its location to clients via Zookeeper. This is done to support multimaster
operation (failover). So if the HBase master self-discovers its location as a localhost address, then it will
publish that. Region servers or clients which go to Zookeeper for the master location will get back an address
in that case only useful if they happen to be co-located with the master.
Note:
* HMaster is the implementation of the Master Server. The Master server is responsible for monitoring all
RegionServer instances in the cluster, and is the interface for all metadata changes.



Question : You have an average key-value pair size of bytes. Your primary access is random needs on the table.
Which of the following actions will speed up random reading performance on your cluster?




1. Turn off WAL on puts
2. Increase the number of versions kept
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4. Increase the block size
Ans : 3

Exp : Larger block size is preferred if files are primarily for sequential access. Smaller blocks are good for random
access, but require more memory to hold the block index, and may be slower to create



Question : The cells in a given row have versions that range from to . You execute a delete specifying the
value 3000 for the version. What is the outcome?




1. The delete fails with an error.
2. Only cells equal to the Specified version are deleted.
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4. Nothing in the row is deleted.

Ans : 3

Exp : When performing a delete operation in HBase, there are two ways to specify the versions to be deleted

Delete all versions older than a certain timestamp

Delete the version at a specific timestamp

A delete can apply to a complete row, a complete column family, or to just one column. It is only in the last
case that you can delete explicit versions. For the deletion of a row or all the columns within a family, it always
works by deleting all cells older than a certain version.

Deletes work by creating tombstone markers. For example, let's suppose we want to delete a row. For this you
can specify a version, or else by default the currentTimeMillis is used. What this means is "delete all cells
where the version is less than or equal to this version". HBase never modifies data in place, so for example a
delete will not immediately delete (or mark as deleted) the entries in the storage file that correspond to the
delete condition. Rather, a so-called tombstone is written, which will mask the deleted values[17]. If the version
you specified when deleting a row is larger than the version of any value in the row, then you can consider the
complete row to be deleted



Question : You have an "Employees" table in HBase. The Row Keys are the employees' IDs. You would like to retrieve all
employees who have an employee ID between 'user_100' and 'user_110'. The shell command you would use
to complete this is:




1. scan 'Employees', {STARTROW => 'user_100', STOPROW => 'user_111'}
2. get 'Employees', {STARTROW => 'user_100', STOPROW => 'user_110'}
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4. scan 'Employees', {STARTROW => 'user_100', STOPROW => 'user_110'}
Ans : 4

Exp : public Scan(byte[] startRow,
byte[] stopRow)
Create a Scan operation for the range of rows specified.
Parameters:
startRow - row to start scanner at or after (inclusive) stopRow - row to stop scanner before (exclusive)
Reference:o rg.apache.hadoop.hbase.client, Class Scan



Question : Under default settings, which feature of HBase ensures that data won't be lost in the event of a RegionServer
failure?




1. All HBase activity is written to the WAL, which is stored in HDFS
2. All operations are logged on the HMaster
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4. Data is stored on the local filesystem of the RegionServer.
Ans : 1
Exp : HBase data updates are stored in a place in memory called memstore for fast write. In the event of a region
server failure, the contents of the memstore are lost because they have not been saved to disk yet. To prevent
data loss in such a scenario, the updates are persisted in a WAL file before they are stored in the memstore.
In the event of a region server failure, the lost contents in the memstore can be regenerated by replaying the
updates (also called edits) from the WAL file.


Question : You want to store clickstream data in HBase. Your data consists of the following: the source id, the name of the cluster, the URL of the click, the timestamp for each click

Which rowkey would you use if you wanted to retrieve the source ids with a scan and sorted with the most recent first?





1. (Long)timestamp
2. (source_id)(Long.MAX_VALUE – (Long)timestamp)
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4. (Long.MAX_VALUE)(timestamp)
Ans : 2



Question : You have two standbys and one primary HMaster. Your primary HMaster fails. Which of the remaining
HMasters becomes the new primary?



1. Whichever HMaster first responds to ZooKeeper
2. Whichever HMaster ZooKeeper randomly selects
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4. Whichever HMaster has the lower IP address

Ans : 3
The Hbase master server creates the zookeeper znode /hbase . This is then used for hbase daemons to
coordinate. Even the name of the active Hbase master is stored here. If the hbase master dies, the backup
hbase master overwrites the contents of the znode so clients and region servers know about the new master.
Apart from this, region info is maintained in zookeeper znodes as well.
* Multi-master feature introduced in 0.20.0 does not add cooperating Masters; there is still just one working
Master while the other backups wait. For example, if you start 200 Masters only 1 will be active while the
others wait for it to die. The switch usually takes zookeeper.session.timeout plus a couple of seconds to occur.

you can just start up a second Master on some other machine and
it automatically becomes the backup master. This functionality is built in
to HBase and the Zookeeper quorum takes care of leader election. Basically
the first HBase master to start up becomes the "Active" master and any
other masters that you start up become "Backup". Should your active master
die, ZK will detect this and make your backup master become the active one.
This could take as long as the ZK session timeout to happen, plus some
time for the backup master to do some housekeeping, but all the data that a
Master operates on is persisted in ZK and HDFS, so this failover is
seamless.

/hbase/master (zookeeper.znode.master) The ?active? master will register its own address in this znode at startup, making this znode the source of truth for identifying which server is the Master.

/hbase/backup-masters (zookeeper.znode.backup.masters) Each inactive Master will register itself as backup Master by creating a sub-znode (hbase/backup-master/m1.host). This znode is mainly used to track which machines are available to replace the Master in case of failure.




Question : Data is written to the HLog in which of the following orders?



1. In order of writes
2. In order of writes, separated by region
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4. Descending first by region and second by row key

Ans : 4



Question : Your application needs to retrieve to non-sequential rows from a table with one billion rows. You know the rowkey of each of the rows you need to retrieve. Which does your application need to implement?




1. Scan without range
2. Scan with start and stop row
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4. HTable.get(List(Get) gets)
Ans : 4



Question : You have a table with the following rowkeys:
r1, r2, r3, r10, r15, r20, r25, r30, r35
In which order will these rows be retrieved from a scan?




1. r35, r30, r3, r25, r20, r2, r15, r10, r1
2. r1, r2, r3, r10, r15, r20, r25, r30, r35
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4. r35, r30, r25, r20, r15, r10, r3, r2, r1

Ans : 4

Exp : If you can have the table receiving rows always in decreasing order of the row keys, you then have easy
access to the first and last rows. This is possible because HBase tables are always sorted by row key.



Question : You need to create a "WebLogs" table in HBase. The table will consist of a single Column Family called
"Errors" and two column qualifiers, "IP" and "URL". The shell command you should use to create the table is:




1. create 'WebLogs', {NAME => 'Errors:IP', NAME =>'Errors:URL'}
2. create 'WebLogs', 'Errors' {NAME => 'IP', NAME => 'URL'}
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4. create 'WebLogs', 'Errors'

Ans : 3
Columns in Apache HBase are grouped into column families.

All column members of a column family have the
same prefix.

For example, the columns courses:history and courses:math are both members of the courses
column family.

The colon character (:) delimits the column family from the column qualifier . The column family
prefix must be composed of printable characters. The qualifying tail, the column family qualifier, can be made
of any arbitrary bytes. Column families must be declared up front at schema definition time whereas columns
do not need to be defined at schema time but can be conjured on the fly while the table is up an running.
Physically, all column family members are stored together on the filesystem. Because tunings and storage
specifications are done at the column family level, it is advised that all column family members have the same
general access pattern and size characteristics.


Question : Which feature of HBase ensures predictable disk head seek performance within a RegionServer?



1. Data is stored distributed in HDFS
2. Data stored in HBase is sparse
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4. Data is stored as an uninterpreted array of bytes
Ans : 3

Exp : HBase tables are always sorted by row key.



Question :You perform a check and put operation from within an HBase application using the following:

table.checkAndPut(Bytes.toBytes("rowkey"),
Bytes.toBytes("colfam"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier"),
Bytes.toBytes("barvalue"), newrow));

Which describes this check and put operation?


1. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier exists and the cell value "barvalue" is equal to newrow. Then return "true�.
2. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier and the cell value "barvalue" is NOT equal to newrow. Then return "true�.
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4. Check if rowkey/colfam/qualifier and has the cell value "barvalue". If so, put the values in newrow and return "true".
Ans : 4


Question : Given that following is your entire dataset:

100 column=Managers:Name,timestamp=13313141762084,value=Steve
100 column=Managers:Salary,timestamp=13313141762086,value=80000
100 column=Managers:Skill_1,timestamp=13313141762089,value=Hadoop
100 column=Managers:Skill_2,timestamp=13313141762092,value=HBase

How many sets of physical files will be read during a scan of the entire dataset immediately following a major
compaction




1. 2
2. 1
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4. 4
Ans : 1

Exp : There are two columns families (Managers and Skills) so there will be two files.
Note:
* Physically, all column family members are stored together on the filesystem. Because tunings and storage
specifications are done at the column family level, it is advised that all column family members have the same
general access pattern and size characteristics.

* HBase currently does not do well with anything above two or three column families so keep the number of
column families in your schema low. Currently, flushing and compactions are done on a per Region basis so if
one column family is carrying the bulk of the data bringing on flushes, the adjacent families will also be flushed
though the amount of data they carry is small. When many column families the flushing and compaction
interaction can make for a bunch of needless i/o loading (To be addressed by changing flushing and
compaction to work on a per column family basis).

* When changes are made to either Tables or ColumnFamilies (e.g., region size, block size), these changes
take effect the next time there is a major compaction and the StoreFiles get re-written.

* StoreFiles are composed of blocks. The blocksize is configured on a per-ColumnFamily basis. Compression
happens at the block level within StoreFiles.



Question : Your client application if; writing data to a Region. By default, where is the data saved first?




1. StoreFile
2. WAL
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4. Local disk on the RegionServer
Ans : 3

Exp : HBase data updates are stored in a place in memory called memstore for fast write. In the event of a region
server failure, the contents of the memstore are lost because they have not been saved to disk yet.

Reference:HBase data updates are stored in a place in memory called memstore for fast write. In the event of
a region server failure, the contents of the memstore are lost because they have not been saved to disk yet.



Question : You want to do a full table scan on your data. You decide to disable block caching to see if this improves scan
performance. Will disabling block caching improve scan performance?




1. No. Disabling block caching does not improve scan performance.
2. Yes. When you disable block caching, you free up that memory for other operations. With a full table scan,
you cannot take advantage of block caching anyway because your entire table won't fit into cache.
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4. Yes. When you disable block caching, you free up memory for MemStore, which improves, scan performance
Ans : 3

Exp : Disabling Blockcache
Do not turn off block cache (You'd do it by setting hbase.block.cache.size to zero). Currently we do not do well
if you do this because the regionserver will spend all its time loading hfile indicesover and over again. If your
working set it such that block cache does you no good, at least size the block cache such that hfile indices will
stay up in the cache (you can get a rough idea on the size you need by surveying regionserver UIs; you'll see
index block size accounted near the top of the webpage).



Question : Your client application needs to scan s region for the row key value .
Given a store that contains the following list of Row Key values:
100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107
A bloom filter would return which of the following?


1. Confirmation that 104 may be contained in the set
2. Confirmation that 104 is contained in the set
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4. The file offset of the value 104
Ans : 1
Exp :

* When a HFile is opened, typically when a region is deployed to a RegionServer, the bloom filter is loaded
into memory and used to determine if a given key is in that store file.

* Get/Scan(Row) currently does a parallel N-way get of that Row from all StoreFiles in a Region. This means
that you are doing N read requests from disk. BloomFilters provide a lightweight in- memory structure to
reduce those N disk reads to only the files likely to contain that Row (N-B).

* Keep in mind that HBase only has a block index per file, which is rather course grained and tells the reader
that a key may be in the file because it falls into a start and end key range in the block index. But if the key is
actually present can only be determined by loading that block and scanning it. This also places a burden on
the block cache and you may create a lot of unnecessary churn that the bloom filters would help avoid.



Question : You have Web servers producing timeseries data from Web traffic logs. You want to attain high write
throughput for storing this data in an HBase table. Which of these should you choose for a row key to
maximize your write throughput?




1. {hashCode (centralServerGeneratedSequenceID) }{timestamp}
2. {Long.MAX_VALUE timestamp}
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Ans : 1
Exp : In the HBase chapter of Tom White's book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) there is a an
optimization note on watching out for a phenomenon where an import process walks in lock- step with all
clients in concert pounding one of the table's regions (and thus, a single node), then moving onto the next
region, etc. With monotonically increasing row-keys (i.e., using a timestamp), this will happen. The pile-up on a
single region brought on by monotonically increasing keys can be mitigated by randomizing the input records
to not be in sorted order, but in general it's best to avoid using a timestamp or a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 3) as the
row-key.



Question :What is the advantage of the using the bulk load API over doing individual Puts for bulk insert operations?


1. Writes bypass the HLog/MemStore reducing load on the RegionServer.
2. Users doing bulk Writes may disable writing to the WAL which results in possible data loss.
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4. HFiles written out via the bulk load API are more space efficient than those written out of RegionServers.
Ans : 1



Question : You have data already stored in HDFS and are considering using HBase. Which additional feature does
HBase provide to HDFS?



1. Random writes
2. Batch processing
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4. Scalability

Ans : 1
Exp : HBase adds random read/write access to HDFS.

Note:
Hadoop is scalable, but...
* MapReduce is slow and difcult
* Does not support random writes
* Poor support for random reads



Question : Given that following is your entire dataset:

100 column=Managers:Name,timestamp=13313141762084,value=Steve
100 column=Managers:Salary,timestamp=13313141762086,value=80000
100 column=Managers:Skill_1,timestamp=13313141762089,value=Hadoop
100 column=Managers:Skill_2,timestamp=13313141762092,value=HBase

How many store files will be contained in your region(s) immediately following a major compaction?




1. Four
2. Three
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4. One
Ans : 3
Exp : There are two columns families (Managers and Skills) so there will be two files.

* Physically, all column family members are stored together on the filesystem. Because tunings and storage
specifications are done at the column family level, it is advised that all column family members have the same
general access pattern and size characteristics.

* HBase currently does not do well with anything above two or three column families so keep the number of
column families in your schema low. Currently, flushing and compactions are done on a per Region basis so if
one column family is carrying the bulk of the data bringing on flushes, the adjacent families will also be flushed
though the amount of data they carry is small. When many column families the flushing and compaction
interaction can make for a bunch of needless i/o loading (To be addressed by changing flushing and
compaction to work on a per column family basis).

* When changes are made to either Tables or ColumnFamilies (e.g., region size, block size), these changes
take effect the next time there is a major compaction and the StoreFiles get re-written.

* StoreFiles are composed of blocks. The blocksize is configured on a per-ColumnFamily basis. Compression
happens at the block level within StoreFiles.




Question : You need to free up disk space on your HBase cluster. You delete all versions of your data that is older than
one week. You notice your delete has had minimal impact on your storage availability.
This is because:




1. You have large store file indexes
2. HBase has not flushed the MemStore
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4. HBase has not run a major compaction
Ans : 4

Exp : The actual deletion of the excess versions is done upon major compaction.

HBase basically never overwrites data but only appends. The data files are rewritten once in while by a
compaction process. A data file is basically a list of key-value pairs, where the key is the composite {row key,
column key, time}. Each time you do a put that writes a new value for an existing cell, a new key-value pair
gets appended to the store. Even if you would specify an existing timestamp. Doing lots of updates to the
same row in a short time span will lead to a lot of key-value pairs being present in the store. Depending on the
garbage collection settings (see next), these will be removed during the next compaction.



Question : Given the following HBase table schema:
Row Key, colFam_A:a, colFam_A:b, colFamB:2, colFam_B:10
A table scan will return the column data in which of the following sorted orders:




1. Row Key, colFam_A:a, colFam_A:b, colFam_B:10, colFam_B:2
2. Row Key, colFam_A:a, colFam_A:b, colFam_B:2, colFam_B:10
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4. Row Key, colFam_A:a, colFam_B:10, colFam_A:b, colFam_B:2
Ans : 1

Exp : All is sorted in hbase, first by row (row key), then by column family followed by column qualifier, type and
finally timestamp (ts is sorted in reverse .. so you see newest records first).



Question : Your HBase cluster has hit a performance wall and doesn't seem to be getting faster as you add
RegionServers. Adding an additional HMaster will:



1. Have no effect on performance.
2. Improve the performance of region writes but decrease the performance of metadata changes
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4. Make the performance problem even worse, as operations will have to be replicated to multiple masters.


Ans : 1

Exp : You can add multiple HBase master nodes; however, only one HBase master node is active at a time. The
active HBase master node changes only when the current active HBase master node is shut down or fails.

HBase clusters expand by adding RegionServers that are hosted on industry-standard servers. If a cluster expands with more RegionServers, it increases both in terms of storage and as well as processing capacity. When you want to increase HBase write throughput, moving into bigger cluster by adding RegionServers will improvewrite performance.



Question : You have two tables in existing RDBMS. One contains information about the products you sell (name, size,
color, etc.) The other contains images of the products in JPEG format. These tables are frequently joined in
queries to your database. You would like to move this data into HBase.
How would you design the schema?



1. Create two tables each with multiple column families
2. Create two tables each with a single column family
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4. Create a single table with one column family

Ans : 3
Exp : Access patterns are an important factor in HBase schema design. Even though the two tables in this scenario have very different data sizes and formats, it is better to store them in one table if you are accessing them together most of the time.

Column families allow for separation of data. You can store different types of data and format into different column families. Attributes such as compression, Bloom filters, and replication are set on per column family basis. In this example, it is better to store product information and product images into two different column families and one table.

HBase Documentation on Column Family: (http://hbase.apache.org/book/columnfamily.html)
especially the part:
"Physically, all column family members are stored together on the filesystem. Because tunings and storage specifications are done at the column family level, it is advised that all column family members have the same general access pattern and size characteristics."



Question : You have a "WebLog" table in HBase. The Row Keys are the IP Addresses. You want to retrieve all entries that have an IP Address of .... The shell command you would use is:



1. get 'WebLog', '75.67.21.146'
2. scan 'WebLog', '75.67.21.146'
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4. scan 'WebLog', {COLFAM => 'IP', FILTER => '75.67.12.146'}
Ans : 1
Exp : HBase gives you two classes to read data: Get and Scan. The Get class reads data by specifying a single row key and Scan class supports a range scan. In the HBase Shell, a get operation performs the action on a single row. To geteverything for a row, simply execute a get operation with the row to get.

Further Reading
The HBase Shell wikiincludes a section on scan which includes:
Get row or cell contents; pass table name, row, and optionally a dictionary of column(s), timestamp and versions. Examples:

hbase> get 't1', 'r1'
hbase> get 't1', 'r1', {COLUMN => 'c1'}
hbase> get 't1', 'r1', {COLUMN => ['c1', 'c2', 'c3']}
hbase> get 't1', 'r1', {COLUMN => 'c1', TIMESTAMP => ts1}
hbase> get 't1', 'r1', {COLUMN => 'c1', TIMESTAMP => ts1, VERSIONS => 4}



Question : For a given Column Family, you want to always retain at least one version, but expire all other versions that
are older than 5 days. Which of the following Column Family attribute settings would you set to do this?




1. LENGTH = 5, MIN_VERSIONS = 1
2. TTL = 5, MIN_VERSIONS = 1
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4. TTL = 432000, VERSIONS =1
Ans : 3

Exp : * Time To Live (TTL)
ColumnFamilies can set a TTL length in seconds, and HBase will automatically delete rows once the
expiration time is reached. This applies to all versions of a row - even the current one. The TTL time encoded
in the HBase for the row is specified in UTC.

5 days is 43200 (5x24x60x60) seconds

* Minimum Number of Versions
Like maximum number of row versions, the minimum number of row versions to keep is configured per column
family via HColumnDescriptor. The default for min versions is 0, which means the feature is disabled. The
minimum number of row versions parameter is used together with the time-to-live parameter and can be
combined with the number of row versions parameter to allow configurations such as "keep the last T minutes
worth of data, at most N versions, but keep at least M versions around" (where M is the value for minimum
number of row versions, M is less than N). This parameter should only be set when time-to-live is enabled for a column
family and must be less than the number of row versions.



Question : Given that the following is your entire dataset:

100 column=Managers:Name,timestamp=13313141762084,value=Steve
100 column=Managers:Salary,timestamp=13313141762086,value=80000
100 column=Managers:Skill_1,timestamp=13313141762089,value=Hadoop
100 column=Managers:Skill_2,timestamp=13313141762092,value=HBase

How many regions will be read during a scan of the entire dataset?




1. 4
2. 2
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4. 3
Ans : 3
This table consists of one unique rowkey(100) and 2 different column families (Managers, Skills). All data for a given row in the table is managed together in a region. Region size is configurable between 256Mb to 20Gb. In this example, 4 rows can fit within the lowest default region size, 256 Mb, therefore there is one region for this dataset.

Regions are the basic element of availability and distribution for tables, and are comprised of a Store per Column Family. The heirarchy of objects is as follows:
Table (HBase table)
Region (Regions for the table)
Store (Store per ColumnFamily for each Region for the table)
MemStore (MemStore for each Store for each Region for the table)
StoreFile (StoreFiles for each Store for each Region for the table)
Block (Blocks within a StoreFile within a Store for each Region for the table)
Region Size
Determining the "right" region size can be tricky, and there are a few factors to consider:

HBase scales by having regions across many servers. Thus if you have 2 regions for 16GB data, on a 20 node machine your data will be concentrated on just a few machines - nearly the entire cluster will be idle. This really cant be stressed enough, since a common problem is loading 200MB data into HBase then wondering why your awesome 10 node cluster isn't doing anything.

On the other hand, high region count has been known to make things slow. This is getting better with each release of HBase, but it is probably better to have 700 regions than 3000 for the same amount of data.

There is not much memory footprint difference between 1 region and 10 in terms of indexes, etc, held by the RegionServer.

When starting off, it's probably best to stick to the default region-size, perhaps going smaller for hot tables (or manually split hot regions to spread the load over the cluster), or go with larger region sizes if your cell sizes tend to be largish (100k and up).



Question : You have created a schema called QuickTechie in your HBase, with the following tables.
1. USERPROFILES
2. USERARTICLES
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4. USERGROUPS
5. USERCOMMENT
how many regions will this RegionServers have?

1. It must be equal to five
2. Only one
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4. It would have at least five RegionServes.
Ans : 4 HBase is the Hadoop storage manager that provides low-latency random reads and writes on top of HDFS, and it can handle petabytes of data. One of the interesting capabilities in HBase is auto-sharding, which simply means that tables are dynamically distributed by the system when they become too large.
The basic unit of horizontal scalability in HBase is called a Region. Regions are a subset of the table's data and they are essentially a contiguous, sorted range of rows that are stored together. Initially, there is only one region for a table. As shown below, when regions become too large after adding more rows, the region is split into two at the middle key, creating two roughly equal halves.In HBase the slaves are called Region Servers. Each Region Server is responsible to serve a set of regions, and one Region (i.e. range of rows) can be served only by one Region Server. The HBase architecture has two main services: HMaster that is responsible to coordinate the cluster and execute administrative operations, and the HRegionServer responsible for handling a subset of the table's data.HBase clusters expand by adding RegionServers that are hosted on industry-standard servers (often called commodity hardware). If a cluster expands with more RegionServers, it increases both in terms of storage and processing capacity. When you want to increase HBase write throughput, moving into bigger cluster by adding RegionServers will improve write performance. HMaster, Region Assignment, and Balancing As previously mentioned, the HBase Master coordinates the HBase Cluster and is responsible for administrative operations. A Region Server can serve one or more Regions. Each Region is assigned to a Region Server on startup and the master can decide to move a Region from one Region Server to another as the result of a load balance operation. The Master also handles Region Server failures by assigning the region to another Region Server. The mapping of Regions and Region Servers is kept in a system table called META. By reading META, you can identify which region is responsible for your key. This means that for read and write operations, the master is not involved at all and clients can go directly to the Region Server responsible to serve the requested data. To put or get a row clients don't have to contact the master, clients can directly contact the Region Server that handles the specified row, or in case of a client scan, can directly contact the set of Region Servers responsible for handling the set of keys: To identify the Region Server, the client does a query on the META table. META is a system table used to keep track of regions. It contains the server name and a region identifier comprising a table name and the start row-key. By looking at the start-key and the next region start-key clients are able to identify the range of rows contained in a a particular region. The client keeps a cache for the region locations. This avoids clients to hit the META table every time an operation on the same region is issued. In case of a region split or move to another Region Server (due to balancing, or assignment policies), the client will receive an exception as response and the cache will be refreshed by fetching the updated information from the META table: Since META is a table like the others, the client has to identify on which server META is located. The META locations are stored in a ZooKeeper node on assignment by the Master, and the client reads directly the node to get the address of the Region Server that contains META. HBase's original design was based on BigTable, with another table called -ROOT- containing the META locations and Apache ZooKeeper pointing to it. HBase 0.96 removed that arrangement in favor of ZooKeeper only, since META cannot be split and therefore consists of a single region. Client API: Master and Regions Responsibilities : The HBase Java client API has two main interfaces: HBaseAdmin allows interaction with the "table schema" by creating/deleting/modifying tables, and it allows interaction with the cluster by assigning/unassigning regions, merging regions together, calling for a flush, and so on. This interface communicates with the Master. HTable allows the client to manipulate the data of a specified table by using get, put, delete, and all the other data operations. This interface communicates directly with the Region Servers responsible for handling the requested set of keys. Those two interfaces have separate responsibilities: HBaseAdmin is only used to execute admin operations and communicate with the Master while the HTable is used to manipulate data and communicate with the Regions. Conclusion : As we've seen here, having a Master/Slave architecture does not mean that each operation goes through the master. To read and write data, the HBase client, in fact, goes directly to the specific Region Server responsible for handling the row keys for all the data operations (HTable). The Master is used by the client only for table creation, modification, and deletion operations (HBaseAdmin). Although the a concept of a Master exists, the HBase client does not depend on it for data operations and the cluster can keep serving data even if the master goes down. Each table has at least one region, until it splits. If you have five tables stored in HBase, you have at least five regions. You may have more depending on the size of the region and whether it has split, but you have at least five. HBase documentation on Region : Regions are the basic element of availability and distribution for tables, and are comprised of a Store per Column Family.




Question : HLog stores all the edits to the HStore. Its the hbase write-ahead-log implementation. It performs logfile-rolling,
so external callers are not aware that the underlying file is being rolled. There is one HLog per RegionServer. All edits for all
Regions carried by a particular RegionServer are entered first in the HLog.Select the order in which data written to the HLog?

1. It can write in any order to give parallelization
2. One batch is first sorted ascending order of row key to give read performance
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4. In maintain the same order as it is written.
Ans : 4
Exp : Log stores all the edits to the HStore. Its the hbase write-ahead-log implementation. It performs logfile-rolling, so external callers are not aware that the underlying file is being rolled. There is one HLog per RegionServer. All edits for all Regions carried by a particular RegionServer are entered first in the HLog.

Each HRegion is identified by a unique long int. HRegions do not need to declare themselves before using the HLog; they simply include their HRegion-id in the append or completeCacheFlush calls. An HLog consists of multiple on-disk files, which have a chronological order. As data is flushed to other (better) on-disk structures, the log becomes obsolete. We can destroy all the log messages for a given HRegion-id up to the most-recent CACHEFLUSH message from that HRegion.

It's only practical to delete entire files. Thus, we delete an entire on-disk file F when all of the messages in F have a log-sequence-id that's older (smaller) than the most-recent CACHEFLUSH message for every HRegion that has a message in F. Synchronized methods can never execute in parallel. However, between the start of a cache flush and the completion point, appends are allowed but log rolling is not. To prevent log rolling taking place during this period, a separate reentrant lock is used.As all regions on a RegionServer share a single instance of HLog, data is written sequentially for the best I/O performance. It also means that there is overhead if you need to replay the log and restore data; however this happens infrequently enough to warrant sequential writes for the performance gains the cluster achieves. As we mentioned in the write path blog post, HBase data updates are stored in a place in memory called memstore for fast write. In the event of a region server failure, the contents of the memstore are lost because they have not been saved to disk yet. To prevent data loss in such a scenario, the updates are persisted in a WAL file before they are stored in the memstore. In the event of a region server failure, the lost contents in the memstore can be regenerated by replaying the updates (also called edits) from the WAL file.

A region server serves many regions. All of the regions in a region server share the same active WAL file. Each edit in the WAL file has information about which region it belongs to. When a region is opened, we need to replay those edits in the WAL file that belong to that region. Therefore, edits in the WAL file must be grouped by region so that particular sets can be replayed to regenerate the data in a particular region. The process of grouping the WAL edits by region is called log splitting. It is a critical process for recovering data if a region server fails.

Log splitting is done by HMaster as the cluster starts or by ServerShutdownHandler as a region server shuts down. Since we need to guarantee consistency, affected regions are unavailable until data is restored. So we need to recover and replay all WAL edits before letting those regions become available again. As a result, regions affected by log splitting are unavailable until the process completes and any required edits are applied.


Question : Your Acmeshell Android client application writes to HBase Which sequence will your application traverse
to find the Region serving the row range of interest?
1. ZooKeeper
2. .META.
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4. Region.

1. 2,3,1,4
2. 4,2,3,1
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4. 1,2,4,3
Ans : 3 Catalog Tables The catalog table hbase:meta exists as an HBase table and is filtered out of the HBase shell's list command, but is in fact a table just like any other. -ROOT-
The -ROOT- table was removed in HBase 0.96.0. Information here should be considered historical.
The -ROOT- table kept track of the location of the .META table (the previous name for the table now called hbase:meta) prior to HBase 0.96. The -ROOT- table structure was as follows:
Key .META. region key (.META.,,1)
Values info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance of hbase:meta)
info:server (server:port of the RegionServer holding hbase:meta)
info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process holding hbase:meta)
hbase:meta The hbase:meta table (previously called .META.) keeps a list of all regions in the system. The location of hbase:meta was previously tracked within the -ROOT- table, but is now stored in Zookeeper.
The hbase:meta table structure is as follows:
Key Region key of the format ([table],[region start key],[region id])
Values info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance for this region)
info:server (server:port of the RegionServer containing this region)
info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process containing this region)
When a table is in the process of splitting, two other columns will be created, called info:splitA and info:splitB. These columns represent the two daughter regions. The values for these columns are also serialized HRegionInfo instances. After the region has been split, eventually this row will be deleted.
Note on HRegionInfo The empty key is used to denote table start and table end. A region with an empty start key is the first region in a table. If a region has both an empty start and an empty end key, it is the only region in the table. In the (hopefully unlikely) event that programmatic processing of catalog metadata is required, see the Writables utility. Startup Sequencing First, the location of hbase:meta is looked up in Zookeeper. Next, hbase:meta is updated with server and startcode values. When you write to HBase first time, you need to find the regions where your new row will be written.
To locate the RegionServer, HBase keeps two catalog tables that most users will never have to touch, -ROOT-and .META.. .META. holds the location of the regions of all the tables. -ROOT- holds the location of .META.. When the RegionServer crashes, you won't know where to find the region, so you look into a cache location for .META.. If you can not find in .Meta. then look into -ROOT-. This is reason why HBase stores the location of -ROOT- in a znode in a ZooKeeper. The correct order for pre .96 versions of HBase is ZooKeeper -> -ROOT- -> .META. -> RegionServer -> Region.
The correct order for post .96 versions fo HBase is ZooKeeper -> .META. -> RegionServer -> Region.

The general flow is that a new client contacts the Zookeeper quorum (a separate cluster of Zookeeper nodes) first to find a particular row key. It does so by retrieving the server name (i.e. host name) that hosts the -ROOT- region from Zookeeper. With that information it can query that server to get the server that hosts the .META. table. Both of these two details are cached and only looked up once. Lastly it can query the .META. server and retrieve the server that has the row the client is looking for. Once it has been told where the row resides, i.e. in what region, it caches this information as well and contacts the HRegionServer hosting that region directly. So over time the client has a pretty complete picture of where to get rows from without needing to query the .META. server again.


Question : You are having an Android based client application what information does the .META. table provide to Acmeshell App ?

1. It provides the pointer to -ROOT-

2. It provides the ZooKeeper znode contents
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4. Region location

Ans : 4
Exp : Catalog Tables The catalog table hbase:meta exists as an HBase table and is filtered out of the HBase shell's list command, but is in fact a table just like any other. -ROOT-
The -ROOT- table was removed in HBase 0.96.0. Information here should be considered historical.
The -ROOT- table kept track of the location of the .META table (the previous name for the table now called hbase:meta) prior to HBase 0.96. The -ROOT- table structure was as follows:
Key .META. region key (.META.,,1)
Values info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance of hbase:meta)
info:server (server:port of the RegionServer holding hbase:meta)
info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process holding hbase:meta)
hbase:meta
The hbase:meta table (previously called .META.) keeps a list of all regions in the system. The location of hbase:meta was previously tracked within the -ROOT- table, but is now stored in Zookeeper.
The hbase:meta table structure is as follows:
Key Region key of the format ([table],[region start key],[region id])
Values info:regioninfo (serialized HRegionInfo instance for this region)
info:server (server:port of the RegionServer containing this region)
info:serverstartcode (start-time of the RegionServer process containing this region)
When a table is in the process of splitting, two other columns will be created, called info:splitA and info:splitB. These columns represent the two daughter regions. The values for these columns are also serialized HRegionInfo instances. After the region has been split, eventually this row will be deleted.
Note on HRegionInfo

The empty key is used to denote table start and table end. A region with an empty start key is the first region in a table. If a region has both an empty start and an empty end key, it is the only region in the table

In the (hopefully unlikely) event that programmatic processing of catalog metadata is required, see the Writables utility.
Startup Sequencing First, the location of hbase:meta is looked up in Zookeeper. Next, hbase:meta is updated with server and startcode values.
When you write to HBase first time, you need to find the regions where your new row will be written.
To locate the RegionServer, HBase keeps two catalog tables that most users will never have to touch, -ROOT-and .META.. .META. holds the location of the regions of all the tables. -ROOT- holds the location of .META.. When the RegionServer crashes, you won't know where to find the region, so you look into a cache location for .META.. If you can not find in .Meta. then look into -ROOT-. This is reason why HBase stores the location of -ROOT- in a znode in a ZooKeeper. The correct order for pre .96 versions of HBase is ZooKeeper -> -ROOT- -> .META. -> RegionServer -> Region.
The correct order for post .96 versions fo HBase is ZooKeeper -> .META. -> RegionServer -> Region.

The general flow is that a new client contacts the Zookeeper quorum (a separate cluster of Zookeeper nodes) first to find a particular row key. It does so by retrieving the server name (i.e. host name) that hosts the -ROOT- region from Zookeeper. With that information it can query that server to get the server that hosts the .META. table. Both of these two details are cached and only looked up once. Lastly it can query the .META. server and retrieve the server that has the row the client is looking for. Once it has been told where the row resides, i.e. in what region, it caches this information as well and contacts the HRegionServer hosting that region directly. So over time the client has a pretty complete picture of where to get rows from without needing to query the .META. server again.The .META. table keeps a list of all regions in the system: the current location of each region for each table, and also its name, its HRegionInfo, and some server information.





Question : You are migrating the data from Oracle database to HBase, with the Put commands. And you observed that
your migration is very slow. You contacted the HBase administrator and he suggesred to
use bulk load API over executing Put commands for bulk insert operations, why ?

1. There is a possibility of loosing the data if one of the datanode fails in Hadoop
2. Bulk load API will by pass the NameNode and directly writes the data to Data Node and later inform to NameNode via Heartbeat
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4. Writes would be bypassed the HLog and there will be less load on the RegionServer

Ans : 4
Exp : HBase includes several methods of loading data into tables. The most straightforward method is to either use the TableOutputFormat class from a MapReduce job, or use the normal client APIs; however, these are not always the most efficient methods.

The bulk load feature uses a MapReduce job to output table data in HBase's internal data format, and then directly loads the generated StoreFiles into a running cluster. Using bulk load will use less CPU and network resources than simply using the HBase API.
Bulk Load Limitations : As bulk loading bypasses the write path, the WAL doesn't get written to as part of the process. Replication works by reading the WAL files so it won't see the bulk loaded data – and the same goes for the edits that use Put.setWriteToWAL(true). One way to handle that is to ship the raw files or the HFiles to the other cluster and do the other processing there.
Bulk Load Architecture : The HBase bulk load process consists of two main steps.
Preparing data via a MapReduce job : The first step of a bulk load is to generate HBase data files (StoreFiles) from a MapReduce job using HFileOutputFormat. This output format writes out data in HBase's internal storage format so that they can be later loaded very efficiently into the cluster.

In order to function efficiently, HFileOutputFormat must be configured such that each output HFile fits within a single region. In order to do this, jobs whose output will be bulk loaded into HBase use Hadoop's TotalOrderPartitioner class to partition the map output into disjoint ranges of the key space, corresponding to the key ranges of the regions in the table. HFileOutputFormat includes a convenience function, configureIncrementalLoad(), which automatically sets up a TotalOrderPartitioner based on the current region boundaries of a table. Completing the data load : After the data has been prepared using HFileOutputFormat, it is loaded into the cluster using completebulkload. This command line tool iterates through the prepared data files, and for each one determines the region the file belongs to. It then contacts the appropriate Region Server which adopts the HFile, moving it into its storage directory and making the data available to clients.

If the region boundaries have changed during the course of bulk load preparation, or between the preparation and completion steps, the completebulkloads utility will automatically split the data files into pieces corresponding to the new boundaries. This process is not optimally efficient, so users should take care to minimize the delay between preparing a bulk load and importing it into the cluster, especially if other clients are simultaneously loading data through other means.
Importing the prepared data using the completebulkload tool : After a data import has been prepared, either by using the importtsv tool with the "importtsv.bulk.output" option or by some other MapReduce job using the HFileOutputFormat, the completebulkload tool is used to import the data into the running cluster.

The completebulkload tool simply takes the output path where importtsv or your MapReduce job put its results, and the table name to import into. For example:
$ hadoop jar hbase-VERSION.jar completebulkload [-c /path/to/hbase/config/hbase-site.xml] /user/todd/myoutput mytable
The -c config-file option can be used to specify a file containing the appropriate hbase parameters (e.g., hbase-site.xml) if not supplied already on the CLASSPATH (In addition, the CLASSPATH must contain the directory that has the zookeeper configuration file if zookeeper is NOT managed by HBase).
Note: If the target table does not already exist in HBase, this tool will create the table automatically.
This tool will run quickly, after which point the new data will be visible in the cluster.
This question is specific to bulk loading with the HBase bulk load API, not using external tools. The first step of a bulk load is to generate HBase data files from a MapReduce job using HFileOutputFormat. This output format writes out data in HBase's internal storage format so that it can be later loaded very efficiently into the cluster. In order to function efficiently, HFileOutputFormat must be configured such that each output HFile fits within a single region.


Question : You have a Acmeshell advertising application which connect to HBase and inserts the users comment to
AcmeLogs table, and the table uses random number as the rowkey, but later you get to know it has no business use using random number as a rowkey.
Now you decided to use emailid as a rowkey, select the correct statement.

1. Using HBase shell command you can change the rowkeys

2. Simply ALTER the TABLE and change the rowkeys
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4. You have decided to keep both the table till complete migration happens. And modified the client code which now will write to both the old table and a new table while migrating the old data in the background.
Ans : 4 Exp : In HBase, rowkeys are immutable. If you change the row key, you have to rewrite the entire table. Typically, you create a new table with new rowkeys and migrate the old data into new table in the background via map-reduce job or tools.
Monotonically Increasing Row Keys/Timeseries Data

In the HBase chapter of Tom White's book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) there is a an optimization note on watching out for a phenomenon where an import process walks in lock-step with all clients in concert pounding one of the table's regions (and thus, a single node), then moving onto the next region, etc. With monotonically increasing row-keys (i.e., using a timestamp), this will happen. See this comic by IKai Lan on why monotonically increasing row keys are problematic in BigTable-like datastores: monotonically increasing values are bad. The pile-up on a single region brought on by monotonically increasing keys can be mitigated by randomizing the input records to not be in sorted order, but in general it's best to avoid using a timestamp or a sequence (e.g. 1, 2, 3) as the row-key.

If you do need to upload time series data into HBase, you should study OpenTSDB as a successful example. It has a page describing the schema it uses in HBase. The key format in OpenTSDB is effectively [metric_type][event_timestamp], which would appear at first glance to contradict the previous advice about not using a timestamp as the key. However, the difference is that the timestamp is not in the lead position of the key, and the design assumption is that there are dozens or hundreds (or more) of different metric types. Thus, even with a continual stream of input data with a mix of metric types, the Puts are distributed across various points of regions in the table.
Try to minimize row and column sizes or why are my StoreFile indices large?
In HBase, values are always freighted with their coordinates; as a cell value passes through the system, it'll be accompanied by its row, column name, and timestamp - always. If your rows and column names are large, especially compared to the size of the cell value, then you may run up against some interesting scenarios. One such is the case described by Marc Limotte at the tail of HBASE-3551 (recommended!). Therein, the indices that are kept on HBase storefiles (Section 9.7.6.4, "StoreFile (HFile)") to facilitate random access may end up occupyng large chunks of the HBase allotted RAM because the cell value coordinates are large. Mark in the above cited comment suggests upping the block size so entries in the store file index happen at a larger interval or modify the table schema so it makes for smaller rows and column names. Compression will also make for larger indices. See the thread a question storefileIndexSize up on the user mailing list.

Most of the time small inefficiencies don't matter all that much. Unfortunately, this is a case where they do. Whatever patterns are selected for ColumnFamilies, attributes, and rowkeys they could be repeated several billion times in your data.


Question : You have a USERPROFILE table in HBase. The row keys are dates as to You would like to retrieve
all rows between 01012012 and 31122012 (1 year data) . Select the proper command for doing such operation

1. scan 'USERPROFILE', {STARTROW => '01011990', STOPROW => '31122012'}
2. get 'USERPROFILE', {STARTROW => '01011990', STOPROW => '31122012'}

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4. scan 'USERPROFILE', {STARTROW => '01011990', LIMIT => '31122012'}
Ans : 1 Exp : HBase gives you two classes to read data: Get and Scan. The Get class reads data by specifying a single row key and Scan class supports a range scan.
In the HBase Shell, you can type scan commands to retrieve range of rows. All operations are identical to get commands with the exception of instantiation. Rather than specifying a single row, an optional startRow and stopRow may be defined. If rows are not specified, the scan will iterate over all rows. Scan a table; pass table name and optionally a dictionary of scanner specifications. Scanner specifications may include one or more of the following: LIMIT, STARTROW, STOPROW, TIMESTAMP, or COLUMNS. If no columns are specified, all columns will be scanned. To scan all members of a column family, leave the qualifier empty as in 'col_family:'. Examples: hbase> scan '.META.' hbase> scan '.META.', {COLUMNS => 'info:regioninfo'} hbase> scan 't1', {COLUMNS => ['c1', 'c2'], LIMIT => 10, STARTROW => 'xyz'} For experts, there is an additional option -- CACHE_BLOCKS -- which switches block caching for the scanner on (true) or off (false). By default it is enabled. Examples: hbase> scan 't1', {COLUMNS => ['c1', 'c2'], CACHE_BLOCKS => false} One interesting piece of information not mentioned there is that version and column delete markers are ordered in line together with the KeyValues that they affect and family delete markers are always sorted to the beginning of their row. Generally each column family is represented by a Store, which manages one or more StoreFiles. Scanning is a form of merge-sort performed by a RegionScanner, which merges results of one or more StoreScanners (one per family), who in turn merge results of one or more StoreFileScanners (one for each file for this family):
RegionScanner
/ \
StoreScanner StoreScanner
/ \ / \
StoreFileScanner StoreFileScanner StoreFileScanner StoreFileScanner
| | | |
StoreFile StoreFile StoreFile StoreFile
Say you performed the following actions (T is time):
put: row1, family, col1, value1, T --> delete family: row1, family, T+1 --> put: row1, family, col1, value2, T+2 --> delete columns: row1, family, col1, T+3 --> put: row1, family, col1, value3, T+4 What we will find in the StoreFile for "family" is this:
family-delete row1, T+1 , row1,col1,value3, T+4 , column-delete row1,col1, T+3 , row1,col1,value2, T+2 , row1,col1,value1, T
KeyValues are ordered in reverse chronological order (within their row and column). The family delete marker, however, is always first on the row. That makes sense, because family delete marker affects potentially many columns in this row, so in order to allow scanners to scan forward-only, the family delete markers need to be seen by a scanner first. That also means that even if we are only looking for a specific column, we always seek to the beginning of the row to check if there is a family delete with a timestamp that is greater of equal to the versions of column that we are interested in. After that the scanner seeks to the column. And even if we are looking for a past version of a column we have to seek to the "beginning" of the column (i.e. the potential delete marker right before it), before we can scan forward to the version we're interested in. My initial patch for HBASE-5268 would sort the prefix delete markers just like column delete markers.
By now it should be obvious why this does not work. The beginning of a row is a known point, so it the "beginning" of a column. The beginning of a prefix of a column is not. So to find out whether a column is marked for deletion we would have to start at the beginning of the row and then scan forward to find all prefix delete markers. That clearly is not efficient. My 2nd attempt placed the all prefix delete markers at the beginning of the row. That technically works. But notice that a column delete marker only has to be retained by the scanner for a short period of time (until after we scanned past all versions that it affects). For prefix delete markers we'd have to keep them into memory until we scanned past all columns that start with the prefix. In addition the number of prefix delete markers for a row is not principally limited. Family delete markers do not have this problem because (1) the number of column families is limited for other reasons and (2) store files are per family, so all we have to remember for a family in a StoreScanner is a timestamp.



Question : Increasing the value of hbase.hregion.max.filesize setting wiil affect?

1. Automated region splitting

2. DataStore Volume capacity will be increased
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4. Blcok Size will be increased
Ans : 1
Exp : Regardless of whether pre-splitting is used or not, once a region gets to a certain limit, it is automatically split into two regions. If you are using HBase 0.94 (which comes with HDP-1.2), you can configure when HBase decides to split a region, and how it calculates the split points via the pluggable RegionSplitPolicy API. There are a couple predefined region split policies: ConstantSizeRegionSplitPolicy, IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy, and KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy.
The first one is the default and only split policy for HBase versions before 0.94. It splits the regions when the total data size for one of the stores (corresponding to a column-family) in the region gets bigger than configured "hbase.hregion.max.filesize", which has a default value of 10GB. This split policy is ideal in cases, where you are have done pre-splitting, and are interested in getting lower number of regions per region server. The default split policy for HBase 0.94 and trunk is IncreasingToUpperBoundRegionSplitPolicy, which does more aggressive splitting based on the number of regions hosted in the same region server. The split policy uses the max store file size based on Min (R^2 * "hbase.hregion.memstore.flush.size", "hbase.hregion.max.filesize"), where R is the number of regions of the same table hosted on the same regionserver. So for example, with the default memstore flush size of 128MB and the default max store size of 10GB, the first region on the region server will be split just after the first flush at 128MB. As number of regions hosted in the region server increases, it will use increasing split sizes: 512MB, 1152MB, 2GB, 3.2GB, 4.6GB, 6.2GB, etc. After reaching 9 regions, the split size will go beyond the configured "hbase.hregion.max.filesize", at which point, 10GB split size will be used from then on. For both of these algorithms, regardless of when splitting occurs, the split point used is the rowkey that corresponds to the mid point in the "block index" for the largest store file in the largest store. KeyPrefixRegionSplitPolicy is a curious addition to the HBase arsenal. You can configure the length of the prefix for your row keys for grouping them, and this split policy ensures that the regions are not split in the middle of a group of rows having the same prefix. If you have set prefixes for your keys, then you can use this split policy to ensure that rows having the same rowkey prefix always end up in the same region. This grouping of records is sometimes referred to as "Entity Groups" or "Row Groups". This is a key feature when considering use of the "local transactions" (alternative link) feature in your application design. You can configure the default split policy to be used by setting the configuration "hbase.regionserver.region.split.policy", or by configuring the table descriptor.Once a region gets to a certain limit (configurable), it is automatically split into two regions. It splits the regions when the total data size for one of the stores (corresponding to a column-family) in the region gets bigger than configuredhbase.hregion.max.filesize. Bigger Regions : Consider going to larger regions to cut down on the total number of regions on your cluster. Generally less Regions to manage makes for a smoother running cluster (You can always later manually split the big Regions should one prove hot and you want to spread the request load over the cluster). A lower number of regions is preferred, generally in the range of 20 to low-hundreds per RegionServer. Adjust the regionsize as appropriate to achieve this number. For the 0.90.x codebase, the upper-bound of regionsize is about 4Gb, with a default of 256Mb. For 0.92.x codebase, due to the HFile v2 change much larger regionsizes can be supported (e.g., 20Gb). You may need to experiment with this setting based on your hardware configuration and application needs. Adjust hbase.hregion.max.filesize in your hbase-site.xml. RegionSize can also be set on a per-table basis via HTableDescriptor. Managed Splitting : Rather than let HBase auto-split your Regions, manage the splitting manually . With growing amounts of data, splits will continually be needed. Since you always know exactly what regions you have, long-term debugging and profiling is much easier with manual splits. It is hard to trace the logs to understand region level problems if it keeps splitting and getting renamed. Data offlining bugs + unknown number of split regions == oh crap! If an HLog or StoreFile was mistakenly unprocessed by HBase due to a weird bug and you notice it a day or so later, you can be assured that the regions specified in these files are the same as the current regions and you have less headaches trying to restore/replay your dat1. You can finely tune your compaction algorithm. With roughly uniform data growth, it's easy to cause split / compaction storms as the regions all roughly hit the same data size at the same time. With manual splits, you can let staggered, time-based major compactions spread out your network IO load. How do I turn off automatic splitting? Automatic splitting is determined by the configuration valuehbase.hregion.max.filesize. It is not recommended that you set this to Long.MAX_VALUE in case you forget about manual splits. A suggested setting is 100GB, which would result in > 1hr major compactions if reached.



Question : In a ZooKeeper ensemble of nodes. How many simultaneous ZooKeeper nodes failure can be handled?

1. 1
2. 2
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4. 4
Ans : 3 Exp : For reliable ZooKeeper service, you should deploy ZooKeeper in a cluster known as an ensemble. As long as a majority of the ensemble are up, the service will be available. Because Zookeeper requires a majority, it is best to use an odd number of machines. For example, with four machines ZooKeeper can only handle the failure of a single machine; if two machines fail, the remaining two machines do not constitute a majority. However, with five machines ZooKeeper can handle the failure of two machines.For reliable ZooKeeper service, you should deploy ZooKeeper in a cluster known as an ensemble. As long as a majority of the ensemble are up, the service will be available. Because Zookeeper requires a majority, it is best to use an odd number of machines. For example, with four machines ZooKeeper can only handle the failure of a single machine; if two machines fail, the remaining two machines do not constitute a majority. However, with five machines ZooKeeper can handle the failure of two machines.A distributed Apache HBase installation depends on a running ZooKeeper cluster. All participating nodes and clients need to be able to access the running ZooKeeper ensemble. Apache HBase by default manages a ZooKeeper "cluster" for you. It will start and stop the ZooKeeper ensemble as part of the HBase start/stop process. You can also manage the ZooKeeper ensemble independent of HBase and just point HBase at the cluster it should use. To toggle HBase management of ZooKeeper, use the HBASE_MANAGES_ZK variable in conf/hbase-env.sh. This variable, which defaults to true, tells HBase whether to start/stop the ZooKeeper ensemble servers as part of HBase start/stop. When HBase manages the ZooKeeper ensemble, you can specify ZooKeeper configuration using its native zoo.cfg file, or, the easier option is to just specify ZooKeeper options directly in conf/hbase-site.xml. A ZooKeeper configuration option can be set as a property in the HBase hbase-site.xml XML configuration file by prefacing the ZooKeeper option name with hbase.zookeeper.property. For example, the clientPort setting in ZooKeeper can be changed by setting the hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort property. For all default values used by HBase, including ZooKeeper configuration, see HBase Default Configuration. Look for the hbase.zookeeper.property prefix You must at least list the ensemble servers in hbase-site.xml using the hbase.zookeeper.quorum property. This property defaults to a single ensemble member at localhost which is not suitable for a fully distributed HBase. (It binds to the local machine only and remote clients will not be able to connect). In order to form a proper ZooKeeper quorum, you need at least 3. Therefore, a ZooKeeper ensemble of 5 allows 2 peers to fail. How many ZooKeepers should I run : You can run a ZooKeeper ensemble that comprises 1 node only but in production it is recommended that you run a ZooKeeper ensemble of 3, 5 or 7 machines; the more members an ensemble has, the more tolerant the ensemble is of host failures. Further, you should run an odd number of machines. In ZooKeeper, an even number of peers is supported, but it is normally not used because an even-sized ensemble requires, proportionally, more peers to form a quorum than an odd sized ensemble requires. For example, an ensemble with 4 peers requires 3 to form a quorum, while an ensemble with 5 also requires 3 to form a quorum. Thus, an ensemble of 5 allows 2 peers to fail, and thus is more fault tolerant than the ensemble of 4, which allows only 1 down peer. As long as a majority of the ensemble are up, the ZooKeeper service will be available. Because It requires a majority, it is best to use an odd number of machines. For example, with four machines ZooKeeper can only handle the failure of a single machine; if two machines fail, the remaining two machines do not constitute a majority. However, with five machines ZooKeeper can handle the failure of two machines It's critical that you run ZooKeeper under supervision, since Zookeeper is fail-fast and will exit the process if it encounters any error case. See here for more details. The ZooKeeper Data Directory contains files which are a persistent copy of the znodes stored by a particular serving ensemble. It's snapshot files. As changes are made to the znodes these changes are appended to a transaction log, occasionally, when a log grows large, a snapshot of the current state of all znodes will be written to the filesystem. This snapshot supercedes all previous logs ZooKeeper's transaction log must be on a dedicated device. (A dedicated partition is not enough.) ZooKeeper writes the log sequentially, without seeking Sharing your log device with other processes can cause seeks and contention, which in turn can cause multi-second delays
Do not put ZooKeeper in a situation that can cause a swap. In order for ZooKeeper to function with any sort of timeliness, it simply cannot be allowed to swap. Therefore, make certain that the maximum heap size given to ZooKeeper is not bigger than the amount of real memory available to ZooKeeper.




Question : When do you get error with message "Too many open files" ( java.io.IOException), while writing to HBase.

1. When there is a available memory is very low and not able to open an HBase data file.
2. When there is not enough space on one of the datanode
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4. System do not allow more than 10 files for read and write in case of HBase
Ans : 3
Exp : Limits on Number of Files and Processes (ulimit)
Apache HBase is a database. It requires the ability to open a large number of files at once. Many Linux distributions limit the number of files a single user is allowed to open to 1024 (or 256 on older versions of OS X). You can check this limit on your servers by running the command ulimit -n when logged in as the user which runs HBase. See Section 15.9.2.2, java.io.IOException...(Too many open files) for some of the problems you may experience if the limit is too low. You may also notice errors such as the following:
2010-04-06 03:04:37,542 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Exception increateBlockOutputStream java.io.EOFException
2010-04-06 03:04:37,542 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Abandoning block blk_-6935524980745310745_1391901
It is recommended to raise the ulimit to at least 10,000, but more likely 10,240, because the value is usually expressed in multiples of 1024. Each ColumnFamily has at least one StoreFile, and possibly more than 6 StoreFiles if the region is under load. The number of open files required depends upon the number of ColumnFamilies and the number of regions. The following is a rough formula for calculating the potential number of open files on a RegionServer.

Example Calculate the Potential Number of Open Files
(StoreFiles per ColumnFamily) x (regions per RegionServer)
For example, assuming that a schema had 3 ColumnFamilies per region with an average of 3 StoreFiles per ColumnFamily, and there are 100 regions per RegionServer, the JVM will open 3 * 3 * 100 = 900 file descriptors, not counting open JAR files, configuration files, and others. Opening a file does not take many resources, and the risk of allowing a user to open too many files is minimal.
Another related setting is the number of processes a user is allowed to run at once. In Linux and Unix, the number of processes is set using the ulimit -u command. This should not be confused with the nproc command, which controls the number of CPUs available to a given user. Under load, a nproc that is too low can cause OutOfMemoryError exceptions. See Jack Levin's major hdfs issues thread on the hbase-users mailing list, from 2011.
Configuring the fmaximum number of ile descriptors and processes for the user who is running the HBase process is an operating system configuration, rather than an HBase configuration. It is also important to be sure that the settings are changed for the user that actually runs HBase. To see which user started HBase, and that user's ulimit configuration, look at the first line of the HBase log for that instance.[2]
ulimit Settings on Ubuntu. To configure ulimit settings on Ubuntu, edit /etc/security/limits.conf, which is a space-delimited file with four columns. Refer to the man page for limits.conf for details about the format of this file. In the following example, the first line sets both soft and hard limits for the number of open files (nofile) to 32768 for the operating system user with the username hadoop. The second line sets the number of processes to 32000 for the same user.
hadoop - nofile 32768
hadoop - nproc 32000
The settings are only applied if the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) environment is directed to use them. To configure PAM to use these limits, be sure that the /etc/pam.d/common-session file contains the following line:
session required pam_limits.so
This exception states that the system can't create a new file because there are too many open files. You can increase the maximum number of open files in the system with the ulimit command.



Question : Which action will help to improve random reading performance ?

1. Increase the blocksize

2. Decrease the blocksize
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4. Increasing the number of partitions in the table
Ans : 2 Exp : Decreasing blocksize will improve random reads on small cell values like the 100 bytes in this item.
ColumnFamilies can optionally be defined as in-memory. Data is still persisted to disk, just like any other ColumnFamily. In-memory blocks have the highest priority in the Section Block Cache, but it is not a guarantee that the entire table will be in memory. ColumnFamily BlockSize : The blocksize can be configured for each ColumnFamily in a table, and this defaults to 64k. Larger cell values require larger blocksizes. There is an inverse relationship between blocksize and the resulting StoreFile indexes (i.e., if the blocksize is doubled then the resulting indexes should be roughly halved). Blocks are used for different things in HDFS and HBase. Blocks in HDFS are the unit of storage on disk. Blocks in HBase are a unit of storage for memory. There are many HBase blocks that fit into a single HBase file. HBase is designed to maximize efficiency from the HDFS file system, and they fully use the block size there. Some people have even tuned their HDFS to have 20GB block sizes to make HBase more efficient.
If you have perfectly random access on a table that is much larger than memory, then the HBase cache will not help you. However, since HBase is intelligent in how it stores and retrieves data, it does not need to read an entire file block from HDFS to get at the data needed for a request. Data is indexed by key, and it is efficient to retrieve. Additionally, if you have designed your keys well to distribute data across your cluster, random reads will read equally from every server, so that the overall throughput is maximized.

Question :

Yon are storing page view data for a large number of Web sites, each of which has many subdomains (www.
example.com, archive.example.com, beta.example.com, etc.) Your reporting tool needs to retrieve the total
number of page views for a given subdomain of a Web site. Which of the following rowkeys should you use?

1. The reverse domain name (e.g., com.example.beta)
2. The domain name followed by the URL
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4. The URL followed by the reverse domain name


Question :

Your client is writing to a region when the RegionServer crashes. At what point in the write is your data
secure?


1. From the moment the RegionServer wrote to the WAL (write-ahead log)
2. From the moment the RegionServer returned the call
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4. From the moment the RegionServer wrote to the MemStore




Question :

Given the following HBase dataset, which is labeled with row numbers. . .

1 BB002 Column=Comments:C_Author,timestamp=001,value=Diana Mears
2 BB002 Column=Comments:C_Title,timestamp=001,value=Thanks
3 BB001 Column=INFO:Title,timestamp=005,value=HBase+Hadoop
4 BB001 Column=INFO:Author,timestamp=005,value=Larse George
5 BB002 Column=Comments:C_Text,timestamp=001,value=Any tips on...
3 BB001 Column=INFO:Text,timestamp=005,value=Some of the...

Which of the following lists of row numbers is the correct order that HBase would store this data?


1. 1, 5, 2, 4, 3, 6
2. 4, 1, 2, 6, 3, 5
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4. 3, 4, 6, 1, 2, 5




Question :

You have a table with 5 TB of data, 10 RegionServers, and a region size of 256MB. You want to continue with
puts to widely disbursed row ids in your table. Which of the following will improve write performance?

1. Increase your buffer cache in the RegionServers
2. Increase the number of RegionServers to 15
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4. Decrease your region size to 128MB





Question :

From within an HBase application, you would like to create a new table named weblogs. You have started with
the following Java code:
HBaseAdmin admin = new HBaseAdmin (conf);
HTableDescriptor t = new HTableDescriptor("weblogs");
Which of the following method(s) would you use next?


1. admin.createTable(t);admin.enable.Table(t);
2. admin.createTable(t);
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4. HTable.createTable(t);