RELEASENOTES

HBASE hbase-connectors-1.0.1 Release Notes

These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.

  • HBASE-26534 | Minor | Update dependencies in hbase-connectors: HBase version to 2.4.8, and make Hadoop 3 and Spark 3 defaults

HBASE-26534 upgrades hbase-thirdparty to 4.0.1, hbase to 2.4.9, spark to 3.1.2, and hadoop to 3.2.0. Also It builds with spark3 with scala-2.12 and hadoop3 profile as default option.

  • HBASE-26334 | Major | Upgrade commons-io to 2.11.0 in hbase-connectors

Upgraded commons-io to 2.11.0.

  • HBASE-26314 | Major | Upgrade commons-io to 2.8.0 in hbase-connectors

Upgraded commons-io to 2.8.0.

  • HBASE-23576 | Minor | Bump Checkstyle from 8.11 to 8.18 in hbase-connectors

Bumped the Checkstyle version from 8.11 to 8.18

  • HBASE-22817 | Major | Use hbase-shaded dependencies in hbase-spark

The HBase connector for working with Apache Spark now works with the shaded client artifacts provided by the Apache HBase project and avoids adding additional third party dependencies to the classpath.

HBase connector-1.0.0 Release Notes

These release notes cover new developer and user-facing incompatibilities, important issues, features, and major improvements.

  • HBASE-13992 | Major | Integrate SparkOnHBase into HBase

This release includes initial support for running Spark against HBase with a richer feature set than was previously possible with MapReduce bindings:

* Support for Spark and Spark Streaming against Spark 2.1.1 * RDD/DStream formation from scan operations * convenience methods for interacting with HBase from an HBase backed RDD / DStream instance * examples in both the Spark Java API and Spark Scala API * support for running against a secure HBase cluster

  • HBASE-14849 | Major | Add option to set block cache to false on SparkSQL executions

For user configurable parameters for HBase datasources. Please refer to org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.datasources.HBaseSparkConf for details.

User can either set them in SparkConf, which will take effect globally, or configure it per table, which will overwrite the value set in SparkConf. If not set, the default value will take effect.

Currently three parameters are supported.

  1. spark.hbase.blockcache.enable for blockcache enable/disable. Default is enable, but note that this potentially may slow down the system.
  2. spark.hbase.cacheSize for cache size when performing HBase table scan. Default value is 1000
  3. spark.hbase.batchNum for the batch number when performing HBase table scan. Default value is 1000.
  • HBASE-15184 | Critical | SparkSQL Scan operation doesn't work on kerberos cluster

Before this patch, users of the spark HBaseContext would fail due to lack of privilege exceptions.

Note: * It is preferred to have spark in spark-on-yarn mode if Kerberos is used. * This is orthogonal to issues with a kerberized spark cluster via InputFormats.

  • HBASE-15572 | Major | Adding optional timestamp semantics to HBase-Spark

Right now the timestamp is always latest. With this patch, users can select timestamps they want. In this patch, 4 parameters, “timestamp”, “minTimestamp”, “maxiTimestamp” and “maxVersions” are added to HBaseSparkConf. Users can select a timestamp, they can also select a time range with minimum timestamp and maximum timestamp.

  • HBASE-17574 | Major | Clean up how to run tests under hbase-spark module

Run test under root dir or hbase-spark dir

  1. mvn test //run all small and medium java tests, and all scala tests
  2. mvn test -P skipSparkTests //skip all scala and java tests in hbase-spark
  3. mvn test -P runAllTests //run all tests, including scala and all java test even the large test

Run specified test case, since we have two plugins, we need specify both java and scala. When only test scala or jave test case, disable the other one use -Dxx=None as follow:

  1. mvn test -Dtest=TestJavaHBaseContext -DwildcardSuites=None // java unit test
  2. mvn test -Dtest=None -DwildcardSuites=org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.BulkLoadSuite //scala unit test, only support full name in scalatest plugin
  • HBASE-17933 | Major | [hbase-spark] Support Java api for bulkload

The integration module for Apache Spark now includes Java-friendly equivalents for the bulkLoad and bulkLoadThinRows methods in JavaHBaseContext.

  • HBASE-18175 | Critical | Add hbase-spark integration test into hbase-spark-it

HBase now ships with an integration test for our integration with Apache Spark.

You can run this test on a cluster by using an equivalent to the below, e.g. if the version of HBase is 2.0.0-alpha-2

spark-submit --class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.IntegrationTestSparkBulkLoad HBASE_HOME/lib/hbase-spark-it-2.0.0-alpha-2-tests.jar -Dhbase.spark.bulkload.chainlength=500000 -m slowDeterministic
  • HBASE-16179 | Critical | Fix compilation errors when building hbase-spark against Spark 2.0

As of this JIRA, Spark version is upgraded from 1.6 to 2.1.1

  • HBASE-21002 | Minor | Create assembly and scripts to start Kafka Proxy

Adds a kafka proxy that appears to hbase as a replication peer. Use to tee table edits to kafka. Has mechanism for dropping/routing updates. See https://github.com/apache/hbase-connectors/tree/master/kafka for documentation.

  • HBASE-21434 | Major | [hbase-connectors] Cleanup of kafka dependencies; clarify hadoop version

Cleaned up kafka submodule dependencies. Added used dependencies to pom and removed the unused. Depends explicitly on hadoop2. No messing w/ hadoop3 versions.

  • HBASE-21446 | Major | [hbase-connectors] Update spark and scala versions; add some doc on how to generate artifacts with different versions

Updates our hbase-spark integration so defaults spark 2.4.0 (October 2018) from 2.1.1 and Scala 2.11.12 (from 2.11.8).

  • HBASE-15320 | Major | HBase connector for Kafka Connect

This commit adds a kafka connector. The connectors acts as a replication peer and sends modifications in HBase to kafka.

For further information, please refer to kafka/README.md.

  • HBASE-14789 | Major | Enhance the current spark-hbase connector

New features in hbase-spark: * native type support (short, int, long, float, double), * support for Dataframe writes, * avro support, * catalog can be defined in json.