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Introduction

It has been a long time, I have not written a blog. So i thought of writing one. When i started writing it. I thought....., what are the things i need to cover. I searched on the internet a lot about hbase api tutorial, which comes up with rich examples. But in vain, there were very few to be found. Then i thought why not to add the things i am learning. It will be a note for self as well who so ever wants to follow up for examples can also do the same. I will start the No-SQL database getting famous i.e: Hbase . The first question that comes into mind is, What is Hbase? As " wikipedia " says - " HBase is an open source , non- relational , distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java . It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation 's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) , providing BigTable-like capabilities for Hadoop. That is, it provides a fault-tolerant way of storing