HBase provides many features for multi-tenancy and isolation. However, the operation of these features require integration into the broader operations of a cluster. This talk will cover some methods we use at Bloomberg for multi-tenancy and discuss some HBase-Oozie integration. Particularly of interest is our work on an Oozie action for secure snapshot export -- this extends the HBase security model via Oozie allowing self-service (non-hbase user) snapshot export on secure clusters.
Key topics:
* Bloomberg's Oozie HBase export snapshot action
* Oozie coordinated time based major compactions
* How we use LDAP with HBase (and why to take care with HADOOP-12291)
* Some of our multi-tenancy setups around monitoring for SLAs
* Suggesting HBase stays the course of being "just" a datastore -- and all projects following the Unix philosophy (this has made things like our Oozie integration much easier!)