HBase shell command

HBase contains a shell that can communicate with HBase. HBase uses the Hadoop file system to store data. All these tasks occur in HDFs. Here are some of the

Common HBase shell commands.

Data Manipulation language
Command	Description	Command-expression
Create	Create a table	Create ' table name ', ' column name 1 ', ' Column Name 2 ', ' Column name n '
Put	Add a record	Put ' table name ', ' Row name ', ' Column name: ', ' value '
Get	View Records	Get ' table name ', ' Row name '
Count	View the total number of records in a table	Count ' table name '
Delete	Deleting records	Delete ' table name ', ' Row name ', ' column name '
Scan	View All data	Scan "Table name"
Scan	View a table column of data	Scan "table name", [' Column name: ']
Data Definition language
List	List all tables for HBase
Disable	disabling tables	Disable ' table name '
Is_disabled	Verify that the table is disabled	is_disabled ' table name '
Enable	Enable a table	Enable ' table name '
Is_enabled	Verify that the table is enabled	is_enabled ' table name '
Describe	Provides a description of a table	Describe ' table name '
Alter	Change a table
Exists	Verify that the table exists	Exists ' table name '
Drop	To delete a table from HBase	Drop ' table name '
Drop_all	Discard the table that matches the "regex" in the command
Truncate	Empty the entire table	Truncate ' table name '
DeleteAll	Delete all cells for a given row	DeleteAll ' table name ', ' Row name '