Install HBase 1.0.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

Steps:

1. Download hbase tar.gz file in below path
http://apache.mirrors.ionfish.org/hbase/

2. unzip the file and move the extracted folder to /usr/lib/hbase path
sudo mv ~/Downloads/hbase-0.94.6 /usr/lib/hbase

3. edit gedit /usr/lib/hbase/conf/hbase-env.sh file to include JAVA_HOME path
# The java implementation to use.  Java 1.6 required.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64

4. update hbase path in .bashrc file

#HBASE_PATH
export HBASE_HOME=/usr/lib/hbase/
export PATH=$PATH:$HBASE_HOME/bin

5. update conf/hbase-site.xml with working path

<configuration>
<property>
<name>hbase.rootdir</name>
<value>file:///usr/lib/hbase/data_dir</value>
</property>

<property>
<name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
<value>/home/ram/zookeeper</value>
</property>
</configuration>

6. start hbase

start-hbase.sh

7. using hbase shell

hbase shell

8. stop hbase daemon

stop-hbase.sh


Errors and fixes:

Error 1 :
ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMasterCommandLine: Failed to start master
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Server IPC version 9 cannot communicate with client version 4

reason: hadoop vs hbase 0.94.6 compatibility issue.
fix: install latest hadoop version (1.0.1.1)