Is there any C library for HBase? [closed]

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I need HBase to store large amount of indexing keywords and values (currently using Redis), but I can't find any C library to connect, write or read HBase.

I Googled, but found nothing. Does anybody have an idea? Or is there any similar Hadoop-related database that has mature C library?

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I don't know of a pure C HBase client, but there seems to be a C++ client:

https://github.com/apache/hbase/tree/master/hbase-native-client

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There are several options to consider:

• Thrift

• Avro is another new option to look into.

• You could use a plain REST api calls using Stargate.

There is a discussion on the HBase bug tracker HBase-1015 about c and c++ clients.

Look into the above options to see what best fits your requirements.

HDFS, upon which hbase is built, is a similar Hadoop-related database that has a C library.

libhdfs is a c based library to access hdfs. It was created using jni.

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/LibHDFS

http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/libhdfs.html

Here is an example project:

https://github.com/kzk/libhdfs-example

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Note that the C++ Hbase client developed by Chip Turner actually goes through Thrift (at least the current code does). So you have a C++ API translated to the Thrift API, translated to the Java API. The one advantage appears to be that the C++ API is trying to hew closely to the original Java API.

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A native API for HBase, libhbase, similar to libhdfs is available here.

You can also download the pre-built packages for CentOS/RedHat and Ubuntu from for HBase 0.98.x from here.

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You can use Thrift as a gateway to connect with HBase.