HBase – Get rows from Table with Examples

This tutorial describes how to fetch a single row and specific columns from the table using the HBase shell and will practice with some examples.

Reading Data From HBase Table using Get command

Use get to retrieve the data from a single row and it’s columns. The syntax for command get is as follows.

Syntax: get ‘<namespace>:<table_name>’, ‘<row_key>’, ‘<column_key>’

Example:

Below command returns ‘2’ with all columns

This again returns ‘2’ but with just columns specified ‘office:age’ and ‘office:name’

Alternatively, this command returns the same result

Other commands to explore

Next, Let’s see how to enable or disable a table.

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