What is the process for reading data in HBase?
The data retrieval process in HBase is as follows:
- The client sends a read request to the HBase cluster, which includes information such as table name, row key, and column family.
- After receiving the request, HMaster determines the RegionServer where the data is located based on the table name and row key.
- The RegionServer looks up the corresponding HFile based on the row key in the request and reads data from the HFile.
- If the data is not in memory, it will be loaded from disk to memory and returned to the client.
- If the data is in memory, it is returned directly to the client.
- After receiving the data, the client can further process or display it.