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HBase shell on AWS EMR cluster quickstart

How to start HBase client in AWS EMR and query external HBase DB

  1. Create EMR cluster with HBase application enabled manually or using command like this:

2. Establish ssh connection to the cluster

3.To work with external database, set zookeeper quorum in /etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml

3. Start HBase shell

4. In shell do queries like that: