There are various way to access and interact with Apache HBase. Most notably, the Java API provides the most functionality. But some people want to use HBase without Java.
Those people have two main options: One is the Thrift interface (the more lightweight and hence faster of the two options), and the other is the REST interface (aka Stargate). A REST interface uses HTTP verbs to perform an action.
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