HBase tables can be integrated with HIVE, so that querying can be done using IMPALA. IMPALA queries are pretty fast and as easy as any standard SQL queries. We shall load transactional data into HBase table integrated with HIVE using ImportTSV method, and then query the corresponding HIVE table from IMPALA.
There are different ways to load data into HBase tables like: ‘put’ to manually load data records into HBase, ImportTSV and bulk load options. Alternatively, lets try to load huge customer data file into HBase using Apache PIG. The data set has the following fields: