{"id":13180,"date":"2024-03-15T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-view-detailed-information-about-a-table-in-hbase\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:56:58","slug":"how-to-view-detailed-information-about-a-table-in-hbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-view-detailed-information-about-a-table-in-hbase\/","title":{"rendered":"HBase Table Info Guide: Describe Command"},"content":{"rendered":"

To view detailed information about an HBase table, you can use the `describe` command provided by HBase Shell. Follow the steps below:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Using the HBase shell<\/li>\n
  2. Explain the ‘table_name’.<\/li>\n
  3. name of the table<\/li>\n
  4. The HBase Shell will provide detailed information about the table, including its name, column family name, column descriptors, and coprocessors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “For example:”<\/p>\n

    hbase(main):001:0> describe 'my_table'\r\nTable my_table is ENABLED\r\nmy_table\r\nCOLUMN FAMILIES DESCRIPTION\r\n{NAME => 'cf1', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => 'FOREVER', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', BLOCKCACHE => 'true'}\r\n1 row(s) in 0.0410 seconds\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
    In the example above, my_table is the name of the table, cf1 is the column family name, and the column descriptor contains detailed information about the column family, such as data block encoding, Bloom filters, replication scope, versioning, etc.<\/p>\n
    Please note that you must have read access to the table in order to execute the describe command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    To view detailed information about an HBase table, you can use the `describe` command provided by HBase Shell. Follow the steps below: Using the HBase shell Explain the ‘table_name’. name of the table The HBase Shell will provide detailed information about the table, including its name, column family name, column descriptors, and coprocessors. “For example:” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9464,304,17479,1339,9353],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-describe-command","tag-hbase","tag-hbase-administration","tag-hbase-shell","tag-hbase-tables"],"yoast_head":"\nHBase Table Info Guide: Describe Command - Blog - Silicon Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to view detailed information about HBase tables using the describe command. 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