Connect to HBase in Python via HappyBase

Prerequisites

If you don't have a HBase environment to work with, please follow one of the following articles to install HBase:

• Install HBase in WSL - Pseudo-Distributed Mode
• Install HBase in WSL - Standalone Mode (Follow this if you don't want to configure Hadoop).

Install HappyBase package

Use the following command to install HappyBase Python package:

pip install happybase
# or
pip3 install happybase

Connect to HBase

After you installed HBase, make sure you start both HBase service and also thrift service:

bin/start-hbase.sh
bin/hbase-daemon.sh start thrift

By default, the thrift service listens on port 9090.

Now create a Python script named test-hbase.py with the following content:

import happybase
connection = happybase.Connection('127.0.0.1',9090)
table = connection.table('test_table')
row = table.row(b'row1')
print(row[b'cf:a'])

The scripts connect to the Thrift service in my WSL local HBase standalone instance. Table test_table was created as part of the installation tutorial. 

The output looks like the following screenshot:

References

To learn more about HappyBase package, refer to HappyBase - HappyBase 1.2.0 documentation.