USPS AIS bulk data loading with Hadoop mapreduce

Today I pushed up some source to Github for a utility I was previously working on to load data from USPS AIS data files into HBase/Mysql using Hadoop mapreduce and simpler data loaders. Source @ https://github.com/bitsofinfo/usps-ais-data-loader This project was originally started to create a framework for loading data files from the USPS AIS suite of …

HBase examples on OS-X and Maven

Ok, so today I needed to get HBase 0.20.0 running on my local os-x box, simply in standalone mode. I am starting a project where I need to manage 50-100 million records and I wanted to try out HBase. Here are the steps I took, the steps below are a consolidation of some pointers found …