Creating a Table using HBase Shell

Category : Hadoop | Sub Category : Apache HBase | By Prasad Bonam Last updated: 2020-10-17 08:29:59 Viewed : 511


Creating a Table using HBase Shell

HBase contains a shell using which you can communicate with Hbase

 Start the HBase interactive shell using “hbase shell” command as shown below.

hbase shell


You can create a table using the create command, here you must specify the table name and the Column Family name. The syntax to create a table in HBase shell is shown below.

             create ‘<table name>’  , ’<column family>’ 
 

Create a table:


Check whether  table is created or not with list command


Search
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