Hello,

I was wondering if there is an easy way to serialize hbase data so I can
store it on a Unix filesystem. Since the data is unstructured I was
thinking of creating a XML file which would represent it for each key and
value. Any thoughts or ideas about this?

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Rita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is an easy way to serialize hbase data so I can
> store it on a Unix filesystem. Since the data is unstructured I was
> thinking of creating a XML file which would represent it for each key and
> value. Any thoughts or ideas about this?
>

Use hadoop sequencefiles?  See
http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.html

St.Ack