How to process a range of hbase rows using spark?

Question

I am trying to use HBase as a data source for spark. So the first step turns out to be creating a RDD from a HBase table. Since Spark works with hadoop input formats, i could find a way to use all rows by creating an rdd http://www.vidyasource.com/blog/Programming/Scala/Java/Data/Hadoop/Analytics/2014/01/25/lighting-a-spark-with-hbase But how do we create a RDD for a range scan ?

All suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

Here is an example of using Scan in Spark:

import java.io.{DataOutputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream}
import java.lang.String
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableInputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Base64

def convertScanToString(scan: Scan): String = {
  val out: ByteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream
  val dos: DataOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(out)
  scan.write(dos)
  Base64.encodeBytes(out.toByteArray)
}

val conf = HBaseConfiguration.create()
val scan = new Scan()
scan.setCaching(500)
scan.setCacheBlocks(false)
conf.set(TableInputFormat.INPUT_TABLE, "table_name")
conf.set(TableInputFormat.SCAN, convertScanToString(scan))
val rdd = sc.newAPIHadoopRDD(conf, classOf[TableInputFormat], classOf[ImmutableBytesWritable], classOf[Result])
rdd.count

You need to add related libraries to the Spark classpath and make sure they are compatible with your Spark. Tips: you can use hbase classpath to find them.