How does HBase enable Random Access to HDFS?

Question

Given that HBase is a database with its files stored in HDFS, how does it enable random access to a singular piece of data within HDFS? By which method is this accomplished?

Answer 1

hbase acess hdfs file by using hfile . you can check the url to get the detail: http://hbase.apache.org/book/hfilev2.html