There are various ways to access and interact with Apache HBase. The Java API provides the most functionality, but many people want to use HBase without Java.
There are two main approaches for doing that: One is the Thrift interface, which is the faster and more lightweight of the two options. The other way to access HBase is using the REST interface, which uses HTTP verbs to perform an action,
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