Accessing Hbase from shell

Create table

create 'Test-Table', 'Test-Column-Family'

Add records to the table

put ’Test-Table’,’ROW_KEY’,’Test-Column-Family:Test-Column-Qualifier’,’Test-Value’

Scan entire table

scan 'Test-Table'

Scan with Column Family

scan 'Test-Table', {COLUMNS => 'Test-Column-Family'}

Scan with Column Family and Column Qualifier

 scan 'Test-Table', {COLUMNS => 'Test-Column-Family:Test-Column-Qualifier'}

Scan the entire table, limit number of records displayed to 10

 scan 'Test-Table', {COLUMNS => 'Test-Column-Family:Test-Column-Qualifier', LIMIT => 10}

Add a column family to an existing table

alter 'Test-Table', NAME => 'Test-Column-Family2'

Delete a Column Family

alter 'Test-Table', 'delete' => 'Test-Column-Family2'

Delete entire table

Deleting table is 2 step process first it has to be disabled and then dropped

disable 'Test-Table' 

drop 'Test-Table'