What data access interfaces does HBase support?
HBase supports various data access interfaces, including:
- HBase offers a Java API that allows developers to access the HBase database using the Java programming language.
- HBase also offers a REST API that allows for operations on the HBase database through the HTTP protocol, making it convenient for non-Java developers or other applications to interact with HBase.
- The Thrift API is supported by HBase, providing developers with the ability to access the HBase database using multiple programming languages (such as Java, Python, Ruby, etc.) through a cross-language remote procedure call (RPC) framework called Thrift.
- HBase also supports the Avro API, which is a data serialization system that can serialize data into binary format and supports multiple programming languages.
- HBase Shell is a command-line tool provided by HBase for managing and querying the HBase database through commands.
- HBase also supports custom Coprocessors, which allow developers to write custom logic and deploy it to the HBase cluster for more advanced data access operations.