Crux – Visualizing and querying big data saved in HBase
- Aug
- 26
In this post, we will walk through an example of creating different visualizations with data stored in a HBase store. We will use Crux and explore its filtering and charting capabilities. Firstly, some background. HBase is a columnar datastore for big data. Utilizing the Hadoop HDFS and providing direct support to Map Reduce, HBase has [...]
read moreCrux Feature List
- Aug
- 25
Crux, a reporting application for HBase has the following features: 1. Native integration with HBase to exploit the low latency needed by a reporting application. Crux completely uses the inbuilt HBase Java api to provide maximum functionality to the user. 2. Ability to use any HBase table schema. You can configure your mapping to define [...]
read moreCreating your first report with Crux
- Aug
- 22
In this post, we will walk through the steps in creating a simple tabular report with a table stockData in HBase. This table has the date as the rowkey and has column families price, spread and stats. We store everything in as strings, not exactly the right way to store the numerics but perfect for [...]
read moreCrux User Group
- Aug
- 18
We have created Crux User group for helping people with Crux and seek suggestions, bugs, areas of improvements etc. cruxUsers Visit this group You can subscribe to the group by entering your email below Subscribe to cruxUsers Email: Visit this group
read moreCrux Reporting for HBase
- Aug
- 18
We have been working on Crux for some time now, and today we pushed the first version out to Github. Crux is a reporting application for HBase, the Hadoop database. Crux helps to query and visualize data saved in HBase. HBase is a distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google’ Bigtable . HBase is in [...]
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