HBase Shell Reference
We use this place to collect commonly used HBase shell command for reference. HBase shell is an HBase extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell to execute some commands(each command represents one functionality) in HBase. HBase shell commands are mainly categorized into 6 parts as follows. Will keep adding more examples here. 1. General Information status Show cluster status. Can be ‘summary’, ‘simple’, or ‘detailed’. The default is ‘summary’. hbase> status hbase> status 'simple' hbase> status 'summary' hbase> status 'detailed' version Output this HBase version.